| | |

Sophocles quotes

English (20)

edits filters

“A State for one man is no State at all.” Sophocles, Antigone
“The blind man cannot move without a guide.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.” Sophocles, Antigone
“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, Antigone
“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” Sophocles, Antigone
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.” Sophocles, Antigone
“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?” Sophocles, Antigone
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?” Sophocles, Antigone
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.” Sophocles, Antigone
“No man, my lord, should make a vow, for if He ever swears he will not do a thing, His afterthoughts belie his first resolve.” Sophocles, Antigone

Related topics

wisdom death friendship silence error wrong excess life happiness madness heart courage reason virtue darkness age fate blindness tyranny democracy

Related sources

Antigone (20)