769 Quotes by Sophocles

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?

Isn’t it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

God’s dice always have a lucky roll.

He has the thousand-yard stare.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he’s down. Where’s the glory, killing the dead twice over?

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.