STANISLAW JERZY LEC

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

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

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

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.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

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.

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

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

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

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

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

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

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

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

All Gods were immortal.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

He who shouts “long live” has to pay for the funeral.