← Another thing that she is thinking is this: she is going to die. Antigone is young. She would much rather live than die. 🔊✎
← Look, I've been thinking about it all night. I'm older than you. I think more than you do. 🔊✎
← Come on! Come on! ... You're frowning, you're staring straight ahead of you, and then off you go without listening to anyone. Listen to me. You know I'm right more often than you are. 🔊✎
← He's stronger than us, Antigone. He's the king. 🔊✎
← And hold me. Hold me tighter than you've ever held me before. So that all your strength goes into me. 🔊✎
← Our little boy, Haemon! He'd have had a mother who was kind of small and untidy - but stronger than all the real mothers with their big tits and their aprons. You believe me, don't you? 🔊✎
← Don't you understand that if anyone other than those three thugs finds out what you tried to do, I will be obliged to put you to death? 🔊✎
← If I were just your ordinary standard issue tyrant, you would long ago have had your tongue cut out and your arms and legs stretched on the rack, or you'd just have been thrown in a hole. But you can see something in my eyes that's hesitating, you can see I'd rather talk than call my men. So you keep on needling me, attacking me as much as you can. 🔊✎
← One morning, I woke up and I was king of Thebes. And God knows there were things in life I wanted more than power... 🔊✎
← What they always bring up, that's promotion. Like in a way they're right. Promotion's slower in the Guard than in the army. But don't you forget, an N.C.O. in the Guard is way more than an ordinary sergeant-major. 🔊✎