Jean Racine Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“None love, but they who wish to love.”
-- Jean Racine

#Love #Wish #One Love

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

#Secret #Doe

“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
-- Jean Racine

#Justice #Injustice #Extremes

“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

#Sadness #Blood #Feeling Sad

“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”
-- Jean Racine

#Love #Lovers #Renewal

“I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”
-- Jean Racine

#Communication #Thinking #Perception

“Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?”
-- Jean Racine

#Hate #Passion #I Hate

“Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.”
-- Jean Racine

#Faith #Iron #Slavery

“Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
-- Jean Racine

#Wisdom #Worry #Too Much

“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
-- Jean Racine

#Faith #Fighting #Religion

“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
-- Jean Racine

#God #Faith #Night

“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
-- Jean Racine

#War #Blood #Doe

“He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.”
-- Jean Racine

#Friday #Laughter #Sunday

“Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.”
-- Jean Racine

#Fruit #Second Marriage #Suspicion

“The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.”
-- Jean Racine

#Feelings #Mind #Lasts

“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”
-- Jean Racine

#Mother #Crime #Burden

“My only hope lies in my despair.”
-- Jean Racine

#Hope #Lying #Despair

“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
-- Jean Racine

#Goodbye #Time #Forever

“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
-- Jean Racine

#Passion #Tragedy #Literature

“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
-- Jean Racine

#Thinking #Holiness #Injustice

“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
-- Jean Racine

#Infidelity #Done #Unfaithful

“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
-- Jean Racine

#Hate #Passion #Guilt

“To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”
-- Jean Racine

#Honor #Ruthlessness #Virtue

“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”
-- Jean Racine

#Choices #Waiting #Dying

“You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.”
-- Jean Racine

#Order #Justice #Guilt

“The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.”
-- Jean Racine

#Heart #Depth #Innocence

“The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.”
-- Jean Racine

#Evil #Joy #Flow

“Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”
-- Jean Racine

#Evil #Crime

“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”
-- Jean Racine

#Sleep #Army #Wind

“The part I remember best is the beginning.”
-- Jean Racine

#Remember