Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

It is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge

In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.

But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark." "I thought it would be amusing.

What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.

Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde. Vesemir thought it was ridiculous; pretentious and idiotic. I dare say he was right.

What usually frightens people? A monster. They say it's small, hunchbacked, bristling like a Urcheon. It creeps around the castle at night, rattles chains. Moans and groans in the chambers.

They're taught to kill, and all human feelings and reactions are trained out of them. They're turned into monsters in order to kill other monsters.

Let it be thus, Geralt of Rivia. Perhaps your destiny was precisely to renounce it and quit? I think that's exactly what it was. For you should know that if you had chosen, chosen correctly, you would see that the destiny you mock has been sneering at you.

You thick thickheads!

Man föds en gång och dör en gång«, sade häxkarlen lugnt. »En perfekt filosofi för en lus, eller hur?«

And to me, as I hum to myself, a duke's worth a jester. Before God we are all equally wise–and equally foolish.

Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale," said the witcher quietly. "Love and blood. They both posses a mighty power.

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR. Just under that somebody had scribbled in much smaller letters AND TAKE A SHIT EVERY MORNING.

Because I don't believe in a lesser evil.

Evil is evil, Stregobor," said the witcher seriously as he got up. "Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit. I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. Time for me to go. We'll see each other tomorrow.

Life, it turns out, isn't poetry. Do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism.

No offense, but your explanations are as foggy as urine from an infected bladder," Geralt commented calmly, "and the loftiness of your expedition's goal is as dubious as a maiden's virginity after a village fate.

For the reason," he shot back, "that last night she made love with me, and not with you.

JesteÅ› kobietÄ…, o której m??czyzna mo?e tylko marzy?. MojÄ…, tylko mojÄ… winÄ… jest, ?e nie mam natury marzyciela.

To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.

You had the courage to commit those deeds, now have courage when your pursuers and justice are close at hand.

I predict a bad end for your race, humans,' Zoltan Chivay said grimly. 'Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.

Brooding achieves nothing, save distress, which clearly does you no good.