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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) QUOTES

Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) QUOTES

1 " A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

2 " Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo? "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

3 " We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

4 " A city which belongs to just one man is no true city "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

5 " All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

6 " But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

7 " And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

8 " There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

9 " Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

10 " I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

11 " The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

12 " I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

13 " There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

14 " I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

15 " Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

16 " Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

17 " For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

18 " Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
But once the wrong is done, a man
can turn his back on folly, misfortune too,
if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,
and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness
brands you for stupidity - pride is a crime. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

19 " Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains that only he has the power
To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—
A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

20 " Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. "

― Sophocles , Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)