Creon Quotes

“There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”

“It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?”

“I didn’t say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don’t have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.”

″...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.”

“Oh, it is hard to give in! But it is worse to risk everything for stubborn pride.”

“God moves swiftly to cancel the folly of stubborn men.”

“I contemn the man who sets his friend Before his country.”

“E’en intolerable ills, Finding right issue, tend to naught but good.”

“I am not so infatuate as to grasp The shadow when I hold the substance fast.”

“Crave not mastery in all, For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall.”

“Anger has no old age but only death; The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.”

“Enjoy thy triumph; soon or late thou’lt find Thou art an enemy to thyself.”

″‘Tis one thing to speak much, another well.”

“Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money ‘tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.”

“Ill fares the husband mated with a shrew, And her embraces very soon wax cold.”

“More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.”

“Die then, and love the dead if thou must; No woman shall be the master while I live.”

“What evils are not wrought by Anarchy! She ruins States, and overthrows the home, She dissipates and routs the embattled host; While discipline preserves the ordered ranks.”