Quote

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Brings
Likes
News
Nobody
Men

More quotes by Sophocles

Image
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles
Image
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles
Image
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Sophocles
Image
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Sophocles
Image
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
Sophocles
Image
I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
Sophocles
Image
To him who is afraid, everything rustles.
Sophocles
Image
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Sophocles
Image
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Sophocles
Image
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles
Image
Time is a kindly God.
Sophocles
Image
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.
Sophocles
Image
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
Image
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles
Image
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
Sophocles
Image
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles
Image
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
Sophocles
Image
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
Image
What you can't enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
Image
To women silence gives their proper grace.
Sophocles