Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneillewas a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth6 June 1606
CountryFrance
innocence imagine suspicion
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
guilty
One is often guilty by being too just.
fall disaster alas
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
memories good-memories lied
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
sweet fate enemy
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
desire increase fulfillment
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
tyrants noble tyranny
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
lying games hype
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
pleasure ruling generous
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
world clemency monarchs
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
beautiful country fate
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
kings husband father
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
birthday enemy despair
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
feelings reason authority
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.