Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

Tak tys vidÄ›l, co ta tvoje zr?da dokáže. VíÅ¡ ty ale, co dokážu já? Znám takové seknutí, po kterém zasaženému z?stane jedna líc a p?lka ?elisti. M?že to pÃ…â"¢ežít, jenže si pak už, mimo jiné, nezahraje na flétnu.

A Ranuncolo venne di nuovo voglia di comporre una ballata sulle fanciulle come lei, non bellissime ma graziose, di quelle che si sognano la notte, mentre le classiche bellezze si dimenticano dopo cinque minuti.

Don't be embarrassed," she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. "I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

The young sorceress would become attractive because the prestige of her profession demanded it. The result was pseudo-pretty women with the angry and cold eyes of ugly girls who couldn't forget their ugliness had been covered by the mask of magic only for the prestige of their profession.

A predire il futuro sono buoni tutti. E lo fanno tutti, perché è facilissimo. La vera arte è predirlo in maniera giusta.

Rocked, he sank into a sea of chamomile as it grew agitated and seethed.

Why have you gone so red, crimson as a poppy? You wanted to know, didn't you? So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest reigns. And it's just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing—

Il re amava immensamente la sua consorte, e lei lo ricambiava con tutto il suo cuore. Una storia simile non poteva che finire tragicamente.

Pro?pak jsi nejel po hlavní cestÄ›?" "Caldemeyne, na hlavních cestách práci nenajdu.

Se a decidere fosse la capacità di fare tesoro delle esperienze passate e di trarre le giuste conclusioni, ci saremmo scordati da un pezzo che cos'è la guerra. Ma esperienze e analogie non hanno mai fermato né fermeranno i guerrafondai.

Evil is evil, Stregobor. Lesser, greater, middling, it is 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.

If the song says they were in love," replied the wizard, "then that's what happened, and their love will endure down the ages. Such is the power of poetry.

La magia è Caos, Arte e Scienza. È maledizione, benedizione e progresso. Tutto dipende da chi si serve della magia, come e con quale scopo. Ma la magia è ovunque. Ovunque intorno a noi. Facilmente accessibile. Basta allungare la mano.

So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reigns.

Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that—

You're trying to bait a man ambushed in the forest with humanitarianism, calling on his nobler feelings. You're asking him, as I understand, to deign not to spill the blood of the brigands who attacked him. He's to take pity on the thugs because the thugs are poor, have got wives, children and, who knows, maybe even mothers.

Peace talks are a market. A country fair. So that some people can be bought, others must be sold. Thus the world runs its course. The point is not to pay too high a price . . .' 'And not to sell oneself too cheaply,' finished the elf, without raising his head.

Geralte." "Poslouchám," zarazil se na prahu. "Využij pÃ…â"¢íležitosti a vykoupej se také. Podle smradu jsem schopna ur?it plemeno, vÄ›k a málem i barvu tvého konÄ›.

In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill like a machine, instinctively.

Non si può mica ragionare in questo modo. Coi trattati è come col matrimonio: non si concludono pensando al tradimento e, una volta conclusi, non bisogna sospettare. Coloro cui non sta bene non devono sposarsi.

There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you. I have lost many such things.

We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry CHAPTER THREE Geralt had reason to suspect–and had long suspected–that sorcerers' banquets differed from the feasts of ordinary mortals.

A jizva? Pro rytíÃ…â"¢a je to ?estná památka, známka slávy a proslulosti, když mu ju kapitula tak pÃ…â"¢ála. RytíÃ…â"¢ bez jizvy je kokot, a ne hrdina. Optej sa ho, hrabÄ›, uvidíÅ¡, že je rád.

He swiftly pins his blade then draws a complicated and quick sign in the air