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
Henryk Sienkiewicz quotes about
laughter pain heart
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
church skepticism my-own
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
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.
always-smile contemplating
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.