Quotations From JEAN RACINE

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• 1.

  I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Hermione, in Andromache, act 4, sc. 5 (1667).
• 2.

  When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. An Israelite, in Esther, act 2, sc. 8 (1689).
  
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• 3.

  All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Archas, in Iphigeneia, act 1, sc. 1 (1674).
  
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• 4.

  She lifts the shadows from my blackest griefs, and makes even my darkest days serene ones.

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. King Ahasuerus, in Esther, act 2, sc. 7 (1689). Ahasuerus is speaking of Esther.
• 5.

  Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Jocasta, in La Thébaïde (The Thebans), act 4, sc. 3 (1664).
  
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• 6.

  Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Hippolytus, in Phaedra, act 4, sc. 2 (1677).
• 7.

  Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Hermione, in Andromache, act 5, sc. 1 (1667).
  
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• 8.

  I have loved him too much not to hate him!

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Hermione, in Andromache, act 2, sc. 1 (1667).
  
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• 9.

  Too much virtue can be criminal.

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Cephise, in Andromache, act 3, sc. 8 (1667).
• 10.

  Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

  Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Abner to Jehoiada, in Athaliah, act 1, sc. 1 (1691).