Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!
Pierre Corneille
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pierre Corneille
Age: 78 †
Born: 1606
Born: June 6
Died: 1684
Died: October 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Writer
Often
Mirrors
Exterior
Soul
Fairs
Conceal
Mind
Gay
Countenance
Souls
Flattering
Fair
Defects
Exteriors
Beauty
Reflect
Physiognomy
Within
Base
Imperfectly
Lying
Hidden
Deceiver
More quotes by Pierre Corneille
Obedience is a hard profession.
Pierre Corneille
It matters more how one gives than what one gives
Pierre Corneille
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Pierre Corneille
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
Pierre Corneille
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage die or kill.
Pierre Corneille
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
Patience and time conquer all things.
Pierre Corneille
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Pierre Corneille
Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?
Pierre Corneille
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
Pierre Corneille
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Pierre Corneille
Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]
Pierre Corneille
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
Pierre Corneille
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Pierre Corneille
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Pierre Corneille
