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
lonely loneliness men
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
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.
character done might
Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
children writing novelists
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
church skepticism my-own
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
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.
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.
real character mask
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
always-smile contemplating
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.