The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone Quotes

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree:...

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say— I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be h...

The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone