Quotes Tagged With :sophocles

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and....

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone....

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many-....

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting....

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the....

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does....

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

Evil gains work their punishment.