I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Quote by Pierre Corneille
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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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Pierre Corneille Quotes
- Peace is produced by war.
- One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
- We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
- Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
- A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
- Peace is produced by war.
- Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
- My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
- I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
- We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
- Happiness seems made to be shared.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.