Yunis Racine Quotes

Justice in the extreme is often unjust. ~ Jean Racine

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith? ~ Jean Racine

I have loved him too much not to hate ~ Jean Racine

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

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways. ~ Jean Racine

Is a faith without action a sincere faith? ~ Jean Racine

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. ~ Jean Racine

Too much virtue can be criminal. ~ Jean Racine

Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet. ~ Harold Bloom

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

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent. ~ Jean Racine

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. ~ Jean Racine

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits. ~ Jean Racine

We are all women you assure me? Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these – 'Chloe liked Olivia …' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. 'Chloe liked Olivia,' I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was there. Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature. Cleopatra did not like Octavia. And how completely Antony and Cleopatra would have been altered had she done so! As it is, I thought, letting my mind, I am afraid, wander a little from Life's Adventure, the whole thing is simplified, conventionalized, if one dared say it, absurdly. Cleopatra's only feeling about Octavia is one of jealousy. Is she taller than I am? How does she do her hair? The play, perhaps, required no more. But how interesting it would have been if the relationship between the two women had been more complicated. All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. So much has been left out, unattempted. And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. There is an attempt at it in Diana of the Crossways. They are confidantes, of course, in Racine and the Greek tragedies. They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. ~ Virginia Woolf

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue. ~ Jean Racine

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ~ Jean Racine

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

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

The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements. ~ Nuno Oliveira

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

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

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ~ Jean Racine

I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer. ~ Jean Racine

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere? ~ Jean Racine

My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare. ~ Horace Walpole

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

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

Extreme justice is often injustice. ~ Jean Racine

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. ~ Jean Racine

I can hear those glances that you think are silent. ~ 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

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

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

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury. ~ Jean Racine

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us? ~ Jean Racine

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

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon
that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages
have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!". ~ Luc De Clapiers

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

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