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Jean Racine Quotes

Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: French Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: December 22, 1639 Date of Death: April 21, 1699 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Jean Racine Related Authors: Pierre Corneille Jules Renard Jean Giraudoux Alexandre Dumas Eugene Ionesco Jean Genet Antonin Artaud

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. Jean Racine A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. Jean Racine According as the man is, so must you humour him. Jean Racine Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? Jean Racine Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. Jean Racine How good is God! How sweet his yoke! Jean Racine I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. Jean Racine I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. Jean Racine I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. Jean Racine I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. Jean Racine I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. Jean Racine If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. Jean Racine In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before. Jean Racine Is a faith without action a sincere faith? Jean Racine It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. Jean Racine It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Jean Racine Justice in the extreme is often unjust. Jean Racine Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. Jean Racine Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. Jean Racine My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. Jean Racine Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. Jean Racine On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. Jean Racine Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! Jean Racine The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. Jean Racine The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. Jean Racine The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Jean Racine There are no secrets that time does not reveal. Jean Racine There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. Jean Racine Too much virtue can be criminal. Jean Racine Without money honor is merely a disease. Jean Racine

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