quote · Words worth keeping
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Sophocles
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 451 BC · classical
author lifetime midpoint (-496–-406); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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