Quotes from Pierre Corneille
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
— Pierre Corneille
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
Ambition aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
— Pierre Corneille
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead
— Pierre Corneille
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
— Pierre Corneille
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
— Pierre Corneille
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
— Pierre Corneille
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
— Pierre Corneille
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
— Pierre Corneille