Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewiczwas a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 May 1846
CountryPoland
class effort understanding
The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.
writing lazy idlers
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
sky water whole
The sky is one whole, the water another
reflection views europe
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.
merit results depends
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
enemy moral instinct
There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
achievement genius soil
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
long independence bedtime
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
fear window-panes people
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
real character mask
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
struggle competition humanity
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.
anxiety bears easy
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.
soul four three
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.
always-smile contemplating
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.