“My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.” — Henryk Sienkiewicz quotes from
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “All these are uncommon things, but does not the uncommon surround us on
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “I recognize, while yawning, the truth of what they say. We are mad. We are hastening to the precipice, something unknown”
14+ quotes from Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real characte”
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “I know that in life I shall never find anything beyond what I have found; thou thyself knowest not that thou art hoping ”
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearl”
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it”
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “Tell me,′ asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, ”
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does
Henryk Sienkiewicz Quote: “Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.”