769 Quotes by Sophocles

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

A man through wit May pass another’s wisdom in the race.

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

Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?

What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.

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

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry