What are some significant quotes from Oedipus Rex?

One massively important
quotation is 's revelation of truth to .  The blind prophet, who Oedipus has called, tells the
king

Hear then: this man whom thou hast sought to
arrest
With threats and warrants this long while, the wretch
Who murdered
Laius -- that man is here.
He passes for an alien in the land
But soon shall
prove a Theban, native born.
And yet his fortune brings him little joy;
For
blind of seeing, clad in beggar's weeds,
For purple robes, and leaning on his
staff,
To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.
And of the children,
inmates of his home,
He shall be proved the brother and the sire,
Of her who
bare him son and husband both,
Co-partner, and assassin of his sire.
Go in and
ponder this, and if thou find
That I have missed the mark, henceforth
declare
I have no wit nor skill in prophecy.

Oedipus has angered and insulted Teiresias enough that the prophet tells the king the truth from
which he once sought to protect him.  Teiresias knows that the truth will only
cause...