Quo Vadis Quotes

“It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.”
― Henryk Sienkjewicz

“As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.”
― Henryk Sienkjewicz

“[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time...”
― Henryk Stanczyk

“Though they love people, the Christians are enemies of our life, our gods and our crimes; hence she fled from me, as from a man who belongs to our [Roman] society, and with whom she would have to share a life counted criminal by Christians...I should not have stopped her from believing in her Christ, and would myself have reared an altar to Him in the atrium. What harm could one more god do me? Why might I not believe in Him, - I who do not believe over much in the old gods? ...It would not be difficult for me even to renounce other gods, for no reasoning mind believes in them at present. But it seems that all this is not enough yet for the Christians. It is not enough to honor Christ, one must also live according to His teachings; and here thou art on the shore of a sea which they command thee to wade through.
Quo Vadis”
― Henryk Stanczyk

“- Аз мисля, господарю, че десет хиляди голи девици правят по-малко впечатление, отколкото една.”
― Henrik Senkevich

“...гореше миналото и душата на Рим, а той, цезарят, стоеше с лютня в ръката, с изражение на трагически актьор и с мисъл не за загиващия роден град, а за позата и за патетичните думи, чрез които би могъл най-добре да предаде огромността на бедствието, да предизвика колкото може по-голямо възхищение и да спечели горещи аплодисменти.”
― Henrik Senkevich