Racine's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: It was you who named him! · It is no longer a passion hidden in my veins: it is Venus herself fastened on her prey. · The decision is made: I am leaving, dear Theramenes.. (Updated Aug 17, 2021.)
'It is Venus herself fastened on her prey', 'I loved you fickle; what would I have done had you been faithful?', 'For whom are these serpents hissing on your heads?': the most quoted lines of Phaedra (1677) and Andromache (1667), checked against the text, with act and scene.
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Top 14
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It was you who named him!
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra to Oenone, when Hippolytus's name is spoken.
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It is no longer a passion hidden in my veins: it is Venus herself fastened on her prey.
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra.
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The decision is made: I am leaving, dear Theramenes.
Phaedra, act I, scene 1, Hippolytus, first line.
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4
Everything grieves me, harms me, and conspires to harm me.
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra.
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5
Gods! Why am I not sitting in the shade of the forests!
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra.
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Ariadne, my sister! wounded by what love you died on the shore where you were left!
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra.
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I saw him, I blushed, I grew pale at the sight of him.
Phaedra, act I, scene 3, Phaedra.
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Daylight is no purer than the depths of my heart.
Phaedra, act IV, scene 2, Hippolytus to Theseus.
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9
Yes, since I find again so faithful a friend…
Andromache, act I, scene 1, Orestes, first line.
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10
I have not yet kissed him today!
Andromache, act I, scene 4, Andromache, about her son.
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Ah, I have loved him too much not to hate him!
Andromache, act II, scene 1, Hermione.
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12
I loved you fickle; what would I have done had you been faithful?
Andromache, act IV, scene 5, Hermione to Pyrrhus.
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13
Who told you to?
Andromache, act V, scene 3, Hermione to Orestes, who has just killed Pyrrhus for her.
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For whom are these serpents hissing on your heads?
Andromache, act V, scene 5, Orestes seized by madness.
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