12 Quotes by Jaroslav Hašek

All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

The lieutenant’s fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station,” said the corporal, after he had gone. “He’s been running after her for a fortnight and he’s always frightfully furious when he comes from the telegraph office and he says about her: “She’s a whore. She won’t sleep with me!

Tak jak przy wieczerzy wigilijnej kiedyś, za rajskich czasów pokoju, w domu nie mogło zabraknąć karpia w galarecie i zupy grzybowej, w świątecznych opowiadaniach nie mogło zabraknąć jednego czy dwóch trupów zamarzniętych pod oknami podczas podglądania zapalonych świeczek na bożonarodzeniowej choince.

Francuzi są eleganccy i rycerscy, istni Polacy Zachodu.

This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.

Vopravdu nevím, proč se ti blázni zlobějí, když je tam drží. Člověk tam může lézt nahej po podlaze, vejt jako šakal, zuřit a kousat. Jestli by to udělal člověk někde na promenádě, tak by se lidi divili, ale tam to patří k něčemu prachobyčejnýmu. Je tam taková svoboda, vo kerej se ani socialistům nikdy nezdálo.

After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.