Pierre Corneille > Quotes

“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
― Pierre Corneille

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
― Pierre Corneille

“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”
― Pierre Corneille

“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur

“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
― Pierre Corneille

“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
― Pierre Corneille

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
― Pierre Corneille

“A good memory is needed after one has lied. ”
― Pierre Corneille

“A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“Va, je ne te hais point.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“Ah! qu'avec peu d'effet on entend la raison,
Quand le cœur est atteint d'un si charmant poison!
Et lorsque le malade aime sa maladie,
Qu'il a peine à souffrir que l'on y remédie!”
― Corneille Pierre, Le Cid

“Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée."

(L'Excuse à Ariste)”
― Pierre Corneille, Chief Plays of Corneille

“The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“L'amour fait les égalités et ne les cherche pas.”
― Pierre Corneille

“A first impulse was never a crime. ”
― Pierre Corneille

“Aux âmes bien nées, La valeur n’attend point le nombre des années.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Toujours aimer, toujours souffrir, toujours mourir.”
― Pierre Corneille, Surena

“لن يتسنى لنا أن نذوق غبطة ً غير مشوبة، ولا تتحقق أمانينا إلا وتخالطها الكآبة، فكلما واتتنا حوادث الدهر تخللها من الهموم ما يكدر علينا صفو مسراتنا.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“The greater the effort,
the greater the glory.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Au milieu de tant de perils, il me reste MOI.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Laksanakanlah kewajiban anda sebaik-baiknya, selebihnya serahkan kepada Tuhan.”
― Pierre Corneille

“I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.”
― Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte

“Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.”
― Pierre Corneille

“Je suis jeune, il est vrai mais aux âmes bien nées
La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“Ma plus douce espérance est de perdre l'espoir.”
― Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

“These little rulers who may rule a year,
Who see their pow’r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people’s state of all states is the worst.
--Cinna”
― Pierre Corneille, Cinna, or The Clemency of Augustus