Quote

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Sophocles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Accusers
Supports
Charge
Silence
Support
Accuser

More quotes by Sophocles

Image
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles
Image
Stranger in a strange country.
Sophocles
Image
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
Image
Obedience to authority saves many skins
Sophocles
Image
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles
Image
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
Sophocles
Image
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles
Image
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
Sophocles
Image
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
Sophocles
Image
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Sophocles
Image
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles
Image
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
Sophocles
Image
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles
Image
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Sophocles
Image
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
Image
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles
Image
It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
Sophocles
Image
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
Image
Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
Image
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
Sophocles