Only the Greatest and the Best Quotes from Sophocles
Quote : "Thou knowest. Save our city: save thine own
Greatness: save me; save all that yet doth groan
Under the dead man's wrong!"
Greatness: save me; save all that yet doth groan
Under the dead man's wrong!"
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1137)
Quote : "A fearful thing is knowledge' when to know Helpeth no end"
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1138)
Quote : "Thou seek'st this man of blood: Thyself art he"
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1139)
Quote : "Thou livest with those near to thee in shame
Most deadly' seeing not thyself nor them."
Most deadly' seeing not thyself nor them."
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1140)
Quote : "Creon mine own Comrade' comes creeping in the dark to ban
And slay me; sending first this magic-man
And schemer' this false beggar-priest' whose eye
Is bright for gold and blind for prophecy?"
And slay me; sending first this magic-man
And schemer' this false beggar-priest' whose eye
Is bright for gold and blind for prophecy?"
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1141)
Quote : "Thou dost look to me
An old man; else' I swear this day should bring
On thee the death thou plottest for thy King."
An old man; else' I swear this day should bring
On thee the death thou plottest for thy King."
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1142)
Quote : "I am blind' and thou
Hast mocked my blindness. Yea' I will speak now."
Hast mocked my blindness. Yea' I will speak now."
- (Author : Sophocles , Book : Oedipus Rex , Quote ID :1143)