Quotes from Andrzej Sapkowski

There is nothing worse than chauvinism underpinned by scholarship.

Il seggio sul quale sedette era stato fabbricato anni prima per la regina Calanthe, e si distingueva dagli altri per l'imponente spalliera e le magnifiche decorazioni. Una tavola può anche essere rotonda, ma si deve sempre vedere chi è il personaggio più importante.

Evil is evil, Stregobor,' said the witcher seriously as he got up. 'Lesser, greater, middling, it's 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

Agreed,' the Witcher nodded. 'That's how it's normally done. I don't understand, though, why the panic? What, is this the first war ever, have there never been any others? Just like usual, the kings' forces beat each other up and then the kings reach agreement, sign treaties and get plastered to celebrate. Nothing will really change for those having their ribs crushed on the jetty now. So why all this brutality?

for verily I do say to you that those magicians are like whitened graves, beautiful on the outside but full of putrefaction and rotten bones on the inside!

The villagers almost beat me to death, but fortunately they didn't know how to go about it . . . They punctured me with stakes, chopped my head off, poured holy water all over me and buried me. Can you imagine how I felt when I woke up?

I'm trying to, but please talk more slowly. Don't forget you're talking to a cabbage.

And you know each other, you say?' 'As sure as eggs is eggs,' the goliard confirmed cheerfully. 'After all, I know his name, and he mine. He knows I'm called Tybald Raabe. Go on, m'lord Reinmar, what's my name?' 'Tybald Raabe' 'See?

Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper.

Vocês contemplam, mas não têm olhos; ouvem, mas os vossos ouvidos estão surdos. Porque em vocês não há amor divino, porque são como barris vazios…

what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

If I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all." – Geralt of Rivia, The Last Wish

Tutto ha il suo prezzo. La guerra esige delle vittime. La pace, a quanto pare, anche.

Fear plays a no less important role in the human psyche than all the other emotions. A psyche without fears would be crippled.

A real man, the sorceress knew from experience, is an enthusiastic angler, but only using a fly. He collects military figures, erotic prints and models of sailing ships he builds himself, including the kind in bottles, and there is never a shortage of empty bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks in his home. He is an excellent cook, able to conjure up veritable culinary masterpieces. And well—when all's said and done—the very sight of him is enough to make one desirous.

Nie drwij z cudzej religii, ani to Å'adne, ani grzeczne, ani... bezpieczne.

An aftertaste in my mouth, disheveled hair, sticky eyes and other morning inconveniences strongly affect my perceptive faculties.

You often disguise gaps in your education with sarcastic or exaggerated simplifications which you consider witty.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence, called the result of these reflections "an eternal and mysterious conflict between head and root", and considered rain an unfathomable causative power. We, sorcerers, don't waste time puzzling

She shuddered even more intensely. And calmed down. I'm alive, she thought, looking around. It's not the end of the battle. Death will end the fight, everything else only interrupts it. They taught me that at Kaer Morhen.

Draw huge, erect phalluses on the primitive hunters.

basilisks, who enjoyed a ferocious reputation for it.

I know that in order to unite two people, destiny is insufficient. Something more is necessary than destiny

Prawda, ?e to ogromna ró?nica? – Ogrom tej ró?nicy umknÄ…Å' jakoÅ› mojej uwadze.