"England is never in a hurry because she…" — Henryk Sienkiewicz

"England is never in a hurry because she is eternal."

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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20 Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better…
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long…
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay…
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged…
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror,…

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such… — Rowan Atkinson
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these… — Lester Bangs
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I… — J. G. Ballard
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I… — David Beckham
We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently. — David Beckham
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny… — Victoria Beckham
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are… — Juliette Binoche
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is… — Bjork

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