dots-menu
×

Home  »  Respectfully Quoted  »  Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.)


Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -KEYWORD INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1243
AUTHOR: Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.)
QUOTATION: I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
ATTRIBUTION: SOPHOCLES, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
SUBJECTS: News
 


Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -KEYWORD INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD