Top 25 Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz of 34 - Page 2

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Political, Daydreaming, Mood

A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Men, Giving, Faithful

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Writing, Lazy, Idlers

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.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Struggle, Competition, Humanity

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Long, Independence, Religion

Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Achievement, Doe, Genius

Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

The sky is one whole, the water another

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Sky, Water, Whole

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fear, Rain, Darkness

Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.610, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fear, Window Panes, People

Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.607, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.