Jean Racine Quotes

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Jean Racine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 22, 1639 - April 21, 1699

Topics

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I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!

Robert Rinder

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You don't always want to go do the same thing day after day because your body, as well as your mind, is not going to be as stimulated. You're not going to want to work as hard or be as motivated.

Anna Kaiser

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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

Angus Deaton

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I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

Roger Moore

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That's why people love Spider-Man: he's the most grounded, relatable of superheroes.

Jon Watts

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I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Don McCullin

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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

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I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

Cote de Pablo

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There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Cindy Gallop

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When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.

Wylie Dufresne

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I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Paulo Coelho

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Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

Tim O'Brien

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