It's a terrible thing to speak well and... by Sophocles | We Heart Quotes

Wrong Drama playwright Theater Ancient Greece

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

- Sophocles

Other quotes by Sophocles

Day

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

- Sophocles

Nothing

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

- Sophocles

Labor Nothing

Without labor nothing prospers.

- Sophocles

Wisdom Words

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

- Sophocles

War Man

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

- Sophocles

Virtue

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

- Sophocles

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