Quotes By Stanislaw Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.