For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
In the original Greek
Ζεὺς γὰρ μεγάλης γλώσσης κόμπους ὑπερεχθαίρει,
Antigone · 442 BC
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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.
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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.