Racine

Famous quotes containing the word racine:

“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“Hated everywhere, they hate all men.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“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)