Jean Racine Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  Jean Racine

  Crime, Great Ones

• 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

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

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Crime, Extremes

• The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

  Jean Racine

  Mother, Crime, Burden

  Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”

• Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

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

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Innocence, Virtue

• Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

  Jean Racine

  Evil, Crime

• I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

  Jean Racine

  Hate, Passion, Guilt

• Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

  Jean Racine

  Sin, Crime, Linked

• Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

  1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.

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