Quotes from Jean Racine

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

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.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

I loved him too much not to hate him at all!

You have named him, not I.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

My only hope lies in my despair.

You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep?

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

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.

I have loved him too much not to hate

Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?

J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer.

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.

I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)

happiness heldis the seed happiness shared is the flower, happiness seems to be shared

Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. La lumière du jour, les ombres de la nuit, Tout retrace à mes yeux les charmes que j'évite. Tout vous livre à l'envi le rebelle Hippolyte.

Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.