Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
Cast
Casts
Shadow
Vapors
Hell
Holiest
Eyes
Vapor
Eye
Gloomy
Even
Covering
Shadows
More quotes by Jean Racine
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
Jean Racine
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
Jean Racine
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
Jean Racine
There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
Jean Racine
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Jean Racine
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Jean Racine
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
Jean Racine
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
Jean Racine
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Racine
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Jean Racine
Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
Jean Racine
The part I remember best is the beginning.
Jean Racine
Innocence has nothing to dread.
Jean Racine
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
Jean Racine
Extreme justice is often injustice.
Jean Racine
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
Jean Racine