417 Quotes by Andrzej Sapkowski

You can’t afford the luxury of spurning contempt. A time of contempt is approaching, Witcher, my friend, a time of great and utter contempt. You have to adapt.

What a company I ended up with,’ Geralt continued, shaking his head. ‘Brothers in arms! A team of heroes! What have I done to deserve it? A poetaster with a lute. A wild and lippy half-dryad, half-woman. A vampire, who’s about to notch up his fifth century. And a bloody Nilfgaardian who insists he isn’t a Nilfgaardian.

If you thirst for justice, hire a witcher.

A woman accentuates her beauty for her own self-esteem.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

I prefer to look after others. It turns out better in the long run.

Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

All around, everywhere you look, is dullness and uncertainty. Even something born of beauty soon leads to boredom and banality, commonplace, the human ritual, the tedious rhythm of life.