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Antigone Quotes

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

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

Sophocles
Money, World, Antigone
Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Sophocles
Judging, Judgement, Antigone
Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

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

Sophocles
Littles, Antigone, Eternity
Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Sophocles
Men, World, Antigone
Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Sophocles
Wisdom, Antigone
Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

Sophocles
Judging, Doe, Antigone
Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.54, Penguin

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles
God, Men, Antigone
Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

Seamus Heaney
Shapes, Antigone, Clout
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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