Sophocles, Antigone Quotes

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.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

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.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

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.

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

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.

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

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

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?