77 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz

Kneadalski shrank, crouched, and hit him from below with a shattering, copycat counterface as follows: he too rolled his eyeballs, lifted them and ogled, he too opened his mouth in calflike rapture, and, his face thus prepared, he moved it in circles till a fly fell into his gaping mouth; he then ate it.

I could have protested of course, who says I couldn’t – I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and – no matter how difficult it would have been – made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have – yet I couldn’t because I didn’t want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one’s sides.

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity.

Don’t change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.