Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

ZwykÅ'o?? zaÅ› równa siÄ™ nijako??, a nijako?? to tanio??.

Everything in this world,' Urban Horn observed casually, 'occurs under the banner of the fight for truth. And though it usually concerns all sorts of truths, one truth benefits from it. The real truth

One thing is certain," muttered the witcher, sweeping his eyes over the tangled jungle of hemp spreading before them. "This devil is not stupid.

Itinerant killers of basilisks; travelling slayers of dragons and vodniks!

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.

Begone from this body!' bellowed Scharley. 'You catamite fucked in the arse!

That fact that I will embrace her is a deliberate, measured response, not a spontaneous one. I'll hug her, for I feel as though I ought to, not because I want to. I feel nothing.

Mi sono già scusato. Frequentando questa stimabile compagnia mi sono rassegnato a molte cose e abituato ad altrettante. Ma ho conservato l'abitudine di scusarmi una sola volta.»

He flew like shit off a shovel.

The sentries were professional soldiers, which could be discerned by their remarkable ability to communicate using sentences constructed entirely of pronouns and coarse expletives.

You can be certain I will," Geralt said, taking the sword and slinging it across his back. "You can be certain I'll remember. In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.

He realized straight away that the conversation hadn't advanced a jot during his short absence.

Why don't you humans finally realize that your domination of the world is as natural and repellant as lice multiplying in a sheepskin coat? You could propose we cohabit with lice and get the same reaction—and I'd listen to the lice as attentively if they, in return for our acknowledgment of their supremacy, were to agree to allow common use of the coat.

Do you know, Ciri, what university studies give a person?' 'No. What?' 'The ability to make use of sources.

I ask everybody here present for forgiveness. With the exception of the noble lady Yennefer, whom I thank, but ask for nothing. Farewell.

He nodded. Reluctantly. He'd had enough of silent assent. Of agreeing to everything she communicated to him, with everything she decided. But he nodded. He loved her, when all was said and done.

Ora capisci che cos'è la neutralità che tanto ti sconvolge? Essere neutrali non significa essere indifferenti e insensibili. Non bisogna uccidere i sentimenti dentro di sé. È sufficiente annientare l'odio.

Anything that is more perfect than you must be a repulsive aberration. And repulsive aberrations are consigned to myths, for sociological reasons.

with his own eyes.' 'Fight?' Three Jackdaws

Come su tutte le lame di Viroleda, vi è inciso: 'Non sguainarla senza ragione, non rinfoderarla senza onore'. Ah! A Viroleda continuano a incidere questa iscrizione. Ma in tutto il mondo queste lame finiscono in mano a farabutti e a sciocchi. In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere...

Yes, this... Urcheon... speaks the truth. Roegner did swear to give him that which he did not expect. It looks as if our lamented king was an oaf as far as a woman's affairs are concerned, and couldn't be trusted to count to nine. He confessed the truth on his death-bed, because he knew what I'd do to him if he'd admitted it earlier. He knew what a mother, whose child is disposed of so recklessly, is capable of.

Sulla strada dell'eternità, ognuno procederà lungo la propria scala, portando il proprio fardello.»

Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you.

And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They