Top 500 Sophocles Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.”

— Sophocles

152. “The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself.”

— Sophocles

153. “To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.”

— Sophocles

154. “Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

— Sophocles

155. “Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

— Sophocles

156. “Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

— Sophocles

157. “You’re dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.”

— Sophocles

158. “Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”

— Sophocles

159. “The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.”

— Sophocles

160. “You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.”

— Sophocles

161. “You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.”

— Sophocles

162. “Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”

— Sophocles

163. “Obedience to authority saves many skins.”

— Sophocles

164. “He has the thousand-yard stare.”

— Sophocles

165. “Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.”

— Sophocles

166. “A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”

— Sophocles

167. “If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.”

— Sophocles

168. “Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.”

— Sophocles

169. “In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.”

— Sophocles

170. “I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.”

— Sophocles

171. “In season, all is good.”

— Sophocles

172. “A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.”

— Sophocles

173. “Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

— Sophocles

174. “Not even Ares battles against necessity.”

— Sophocles

175. “Thou shalt not ration justice.”

— Sophocles

176. “Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.”

— Sophocles

177. “In a just cause it is right to be confident.”

— Sophocles

178. “Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.”

— Sophocles

179. “Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life’s border, free from pain.”

— Sophocles

180. “When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.”

— Sophocles

181. “It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.”

— Sophocles

182. “There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”

— Sophocles

183. “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”

— Sophocles

184. “Time is the great healer, you will see.”

— Sophocles

185. “Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”

— Sophocles

186. “How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”

— Sophocles

187. “No honest man will argue on every side.”

— Sophocles

188. “To revive sorrow is cruel.”

— Sophocles

189. “As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!”

— Sophocles

190. “Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.”

— Sophocles

191. “There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.”

— Sophocles

192. “Death the deliverer freeth all at last.”

— Sophocles

193. “There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.”

— Sophocles

194. “True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills.”

— Sophocles

195. “The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”

— Sophocles

196. “Fortune never helps the fainthearted.”

— Sophocles

197. “The gods love those of ordered soul.”

— Sophocles

198. “Opportunity has power over all things.”

— Sophocles

199. “Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.”

— Sophocles

200. “I say you are the murderer you hunt.”

— Sophocles