Pierre Corneille, (1606 - 1684) Quotes

I have deserved neither so much honor nor so much disgrace.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

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

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

Where there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained.

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.