769 Quotes by Sophocles

Those swift to think are not always secure.

A lie never grows old.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.

Creon: My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city!Haimon: It is no city if it takes orders from one voice.Creon: The State is the King!Haimon: Yes, if the State is a desert.

I live in a place of tears.

If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.