Henryk Sienkiewicz

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“ In genere, femeia nu-si insala barbatul si nu-l tradeaza, daca el singur nu-i acela care sa-i strice sau sa-i calce inima…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“ground the coursing of flocks run wild.”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“without noise of drums or”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“-¡Qué sociedad! -A tal sociedad, tal César.[...]”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz