Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes
More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...
Show MoreBut the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator,...
Show MoreIt is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it a...
Show MoreHe would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...
Show MoreThey did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hu...
Show MoreEngland is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a p...
Show MoreIn the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creature...
Show MoreHe always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.
...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into ...
Show MoreAt most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, ...
Show MoreAmid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpse...
Show MoreShe wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...
Show MoreIn the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be...
Show MoreProphet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...
Show MoreIf we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?
It seemed that out of every tear of a martyr new confessors were born, and that every groan on the a...
Show MoreAnd all at once he saw before him a precipice, as it were without bottom. He was a patrician, a mili...
Show MoreThey were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the h...
Show MoreThe shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty...
Show MoreAs to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which wa...
Show MoreTell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after ...
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