Antigone Quotations

Directions: For each of the following quotes a) identify who is saying the quote to whom and
b) what is the significance of each quote or what insight does the quote give us about
another character or the situation in general?
1) Creon buried our brother Eteocles/ With military honors, gave him a soldiers/ funeral,/
And right it was that he should;/ but Polyneices,/ Who fought as bravely and died as
miserably,-/ They say that Creon has/ sworn/ No one shall bury him (Prologue)
a)
b)

2. We are only/ women,/ We cannot fight with men, _______ ! The law is strong, we must
give into the/ law/ I am helpless: I must/ yield/ to those in authority. (Prologue)
a)
b)

3. For God hates utterly/ The bray of bragging tongues (Prologue)

a)
b)

4. No one values friendship more highly than/ I; but we must remember that friends/
made at the risk of wrecking our Ship are/ not real friends at all. (scene 1)
a)
b)

5) Money! Theres nothing in the world so/ demoralizing as money. / Down go your cities, /
Homes gone, men gone, honest hearts/ corrupted, / Crookedness of all kinds, and all for/
money! (scene 1)
a)
b)

6. It was not Gods proclamation. That final/ Justice/ That rules the world below makes no
such laws. (scene 2 )
a)
b)

7. This girl is guilty of a double insolence, / Breaking the given laws and boasting of it.
(scene 2)
a)
b)

8. I beg you, do not be unchangeable:/ Do not believe that you alone can be right.
(scene 3)
a)
b)

9. You consider it right for a man of/ my years and experience/ to go to school to a boy?
(scene 3)
a)
b)

10. Then she must die. -But her death/ will cause another. (scene 3)
a)
b)

11. Give in to the dead man.../do not fight/ with a corpse-/What glory is it to kill a man who
is dead? (scene 5)
a)
b)

12. The time is not far off when you shall pay/ back/ Corpse for corpse, flesh of your own
flesh. (scene 5)
a)
b)
13. Ive been a kind of butt for the dull/ arrows/ of doddering/ fortunetellers! (scene 5)
a)
b)
14. Oh it is hard to give in! but/it is worse/to risk everything for stubborn pride (scene 5)
a)
b)