Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

De ti se saca un pescador lo mismo que del culo de una cabra una trompeta.

The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use of, are dying, diminishing, deteriorating. We never cultivated the land. Unlike you humans we never tore at it with hoes and ploughs. To you, the earth pays a bloody tribute. It bestowed gifts on us. You tear the earth's treasures from it by force. For us, the earth gave birth and blossomed because it loved us. - 197

En mis tiempos, los hechiceros vivían en torres, leían libros de ciencia y removían los crisoles con la badila.

Vermelho como sangue, branco como marfim, Algo que há muito se desfez está próximo a mim Na Árvore da Morte há um coração de pedra Ao entrar sozinho na cripta, sua alma se quebra A cada simples passo, ele vai te acompanhar Cravar os olhos em sua presa e então atacar Vermelho como sangue, branco como marfim Os que deveriam ter fugido jazem próximo a mim.

Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»

Her Royal Highness, the cursed royal bastard, is four cubits high, shaped like a barrel of beer, has a maw which stretches from ear to ear and is full of dagger-like teeth, has red eyes and a red mop of hair! Her paws, with claws like a wild cat's, hang down to the ground! I'm surprised we've yet to send her likeness to friendly courts! The princess, plague choke her, is already fourteen. Time to think of giving her hand to a prince in marriage!

Remember, because this is important. Graveirs, like ghouls and other monsters in this category, do not have their own ecological niche. They are relicts from the age of the interpenetration of spheres. Killing them does not upset the order and interconnections of nature which prevail in our present sphere. In this sphere these monsters are foreign and there is no place for them.

You have to, you know? Otherwise you catch fear." "What?" "You catch fear," Ciri repeated proudly, brushing her ashen fringe from her forehead. "Didn't you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you're frightened you'll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn't give up. Geralt said so.

Beyond that door,' she indicated carelessly, 'is the laboratory. As has been said before, you may make free use of it. Caution, naturally, is advised. Moderation is particularly recommended during attempts to make brooms carry buckets of water.' Condwiramurs giggled politely, although the joke was ancient. All the lecturers regaled their charges with jokes referring to the mythical hardships of the mythical sorcerer's apprentice.

You can shove such a proposition a d'yeabl aep arse.' The devil demonstrated his knowledge of the Old Language.

Thus do I take you, to have and to hold, for the most wondrous and terrible of times, for the best and the worst of times, by day and by night, in sickness and in health. For I love you with all my heart and swear to love you eternally, until death do us part. Traditional marriage vows

Progress," said Yarpen Zigrin amidst the silence, "will eventually light up the darkness. The darkness will yield before the light. But not right away. And definitely not without a fight.

for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Your songs mention no names, but we know the witcher you sing of is no other than the famous Geralt of Rivia

The sword of destiny has two edges… You are one of them.

They were outcasts. They were a strange, mixed bag created by war, misfortune and contempt. War, misfortune and contempt had brought them together and thrown them onto the bank, the way a river in flood throws and deposits drifting, black pieces of wood smoothed by stones onto its banks.

E per chi ti trucchi così, eh?" "Per me. Una donna mette in risalto la propria bellezza per stare bene con se stessa.

Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on Life, Happiness and Prosperity CHAPTER TWO Triss

Na majestade da morte, no respeito para com os mortos... E a morte é nada mais do que a morte. E o morto é apenas um cadáver frio. Não importa onde jaz onde seus ossos se transformam em pó.

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.

The special army, skipper, isn't just any old unit. It's not some shitty shield-bearers who just need to be shown which end of the javelin pricks. A special army has to know how to fight like nobody's business!

Evil has stopped being chaotic. It has stopped being a blind and impetuous force, against which a witcher, a mutant as murderous and chaotic as Evil itself, had to act. Today Evil acts according to rights – because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written…

The enchanter Stammelford,' interrupted the priest, once more taking on the tone and poise of an academic lecturer, 'once moved a mountain because it obstructed the view from his tower. Nobody has managed to do the like, before or since. Because Stammelford, so they say, had the services of a d'ao, an Earth genie.