Sophocles Deeds Quotations

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.