“What greater wound is there than a false friend?”

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”

“JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself.”

“Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.”

“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”

“Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe 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:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?”