Witcher Series 6 Books Set Collection Quotes

“I manage. I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine,”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“To Milva the Archer.' Zoltan Chivay cleared his throat, saluting with his cup, 'To the Nilfgaardian. To Regis the herbalist, he entertained the travelers in his cottage with moonshine and mandrake, and to Angoulême whom i never knew. May the earth lie lightly on them all. My they have in the beyond, plenty of whatever they were short of on earth. And may their names live forever in songs and tales. Let us drink to them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“You are an anachronistic witcher, and I'm a modern witcher, moving with the spirit of the times. Which is why you'll soon be out of work and I'll be doing well. Soon there won't be any strigas, wyverns, endriagas or werewolves left in the world. But there'll always be whoresons.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Witcher Series 6 Books Set Collection

“Geralt,' said the lawyer, closing his eyes. 'What drives you? If you want to save Ciri . . . I wouldn't have thought you could afford the luxury of contempt. No, that was badly expressed. 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 I'm proposing is a simple solution. Someone will die, so someone else can live. Someone you love will survive. A girl you don't know, and whom you've never seen, will die—' 'And who am I free to despise?' interrupted the Witcher. 'Am I to pay for what I love with contempt for myself?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Witcher Series 6 Books Set Collection

“Sending matter is an elaborate, sophisticated and subtle thing, hence before setting about teleporting, one must without fail defecate and empty the bladder. Geoffrey Monck, The Theory and Practice of Using Teleportals”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“Every departure is at once a return, every farewell is a greeting, every return is a parting. Everything is simultaneously a beginning and an end.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“El Mal es el Mal, menor, mayor, mediano es igual, las proporciones son convenidas y las fronteras borrosas. Si tengo que elegir entre uno y otro prefiero no elegir en absoluto.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“We’re not so naïve that we don’t know your merchants are just outposts of your way of life. We know what follows them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“People,’ Geralt turned his head, ‘like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“— Так уж жизнь устроена, — пропела Цири. — У кого есть немного ума — тому книги. А у кого сумбур в голове — тому метла!”
― Анджей Сапковский, Ведьмак

“Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Complete Witcher

“The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything. We've got to accept the facts, elf. That's what we've got to learn.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher Boxed Set: The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of The Swallow, The Lady of the Lake, Season of Storms

“...А на нас ни остава само отмъщението. Да отмъстим кърваво и жестоко, така че и след сто години да се говори за това в легендите. Легенди, които хората ще се страхуват да слушат след залез-слънце. А на онези, които поискат да повторят това престъпление, ще им се разтреперят ръцете само при мисълта за нашето отмъщение.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Tower of the Swallow / Time of Contempt / Blood of Elves / Baptism of Fire / The Last Wish / Sword of Destiny