Racine

Famous quotes containing the word racine:

“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“In a month, in a year, how will we bear that so many seas separate me from you?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)