26 quotes found
“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
“Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert”
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
“And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; Im going to cause you quite a lot of pain.”
“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul,Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon”
“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
“But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.”
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene”
“Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soulA man like that, when you know him...”
“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
“I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guardsall t...”
“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.”
“Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.”
“The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.”
