216 Quotes by Pierre Corneille

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

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.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

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

How much must I overcome before I triumph?

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.