216 Quotes by Pierre Corneille

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I don’t know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Je mourrai trop heureux mourant d’un coup si beau.

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

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

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.

One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.