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Top 10 famous quotes in Oedipus the King
Oedipus
"You pray to the gods? Let me grant your prayers."
Oedipus
"Creon, the soul of trust, my loyal friend from the start steals against me... so hungry to overthrow me he sets his wizard on me, this scheming quack, this fortune-teller peddling lies, eyes peeled for his own profit --seer blind in his craft!"
Tiresias
"So you mock my blindness?..."
Jocasta
"Nothing human can penetrate the future."
Oedipus
"I can hold nothing back from you now that I can reach this pitch of dark foreboding."
Oedipus
"O god come all true..."