Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

1846–1916 Poland

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Oszyk-Sienkiewicz (5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist, most famous for his novel Quo Vadis.

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

Without Dogma (1891)

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Without Dogma (1891)

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Quo Vadis (1895)

Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

Quo Vadis (1895)

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.

Quo Vadis (1895)

The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.

Without Dogma (1891)

No God has promised me immortality; hence no surprise meets me.

Quo Vadis (1895)

She wanted to be near her husband, and what would become of me was not taken into account.

Without Dogma (1891)

The greatest genius assimilates unconsciously the best with which it comes in contact, and by a subtle chemistry of its own makes new combinations.

I love her now beyond all words; she sees it, — she reads it in my eyes, and in my whole manner towards her.

Without Dogma (1891)

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Without Dogma (1891)

She never can grow ugly, changed, or old to me. I accept everything, agree to everything, and worship her as she is.

Without Dogma (1891)

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

Without Dogma (1891)

If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman.

Without Dogma (1891)

A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.

Without Dogma (1891)

Kromitzki is dead! The catastrophe has come upon us like a thunderbolt. God keep Aniela from any harm in her present state.

Without Dogma (1891)

It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life.

Without Dogma (1891)

The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.

Quo Vadis (1895)

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Quo Vadis (1895)

Let there be at once also the end of the world! O God! if that is to be my punishment, I swear I will go away, never to see her again in life, — only save her!

Without Dogma (1891)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henryk Sienkiewicz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.