Jean Racine Quotes

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Jean Racine

Love, Lovers, Renewal

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Jean Racine

Time, Secrets, Reveal

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

Death, Sadness, Enough

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Jean Racine

Him, Embrace, Rival

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine

Heart, Cannot, Others

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

Love, Fire, Silence

According as the man is, so must you humour him.
Jean Racine

Him, Humour, According

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Jean Racine

Nothing, Matter, Concerns

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
Jean Racine

Nothing, Knowing, Bring

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine

Eyes, Hell, Shadows

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine

Good, God, Sweet

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Jean Racine

Nothing, Although, Possess

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine

Virtue, Brutality, Pushed

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

Women, Won, Hearts

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine

Put, Said, Sincerely

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
Jean Racine

Nothing, Before, Said

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Jean Racine

Faith, Action, Sincere

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Jean Racine

Person, Before, Trial

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Jean Racine

Friends, Old, Themselves

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine

Justice, Often, Extreme

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Jean Racine

Time, Cannot, Admit

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

Death, Eyes, Light

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Jean Racine

Nothing, May, Difficult

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine

Remorse, Worries, Throne

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine

Misery, Gods, Thank

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: December 22, 1639

Died: April 21, 1699

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