“Crime like virtue has its degrees.”

“Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the eyes of beauty,As to make triumph cheap.― Jean Racine, Phèdre”

“Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.”

“She slept the sleep of the just.”

“Crime like virtue has its degrees.”

“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ”

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”

“Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?”

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”

“A single word often betrays a great design.”

“I have loved him too much not to hate”