Jean Racine Quotes About Innocence

Quotes about: Innocence

• Innocence has nothing to dread.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Dread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.

• Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

  Jean Racine

  Fall, Guilt, Vices

• Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Crime, Extremes

• Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Innocence, Virtue

• The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Depth, Innocence

  Phedre act 4, sc. 2 (1677)

• Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Rights, Law, Degrees

• This innocence begins to weigh me down.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence

  "Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah".

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