Quotes by Jean Racine
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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
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.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Without money honor is merely a disease.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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.
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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