Quotes By Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.