Antigone Quote by Jean Anouilh Download Open image ““My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.”” — Jean Anouilh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antigone Creon France Part-to-play Ww2
“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
“As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all” — John Dorian- scrubs Copy Share Image
“I am not your hero. I am not the other half of your soul who could never let anything bad ever happen to you.… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us off to… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
“Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...” — Annie Brown Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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“Hail the sun! the brightest of all that ever Dawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes! Hail the golden dawn over… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
