Под игото Quotes

“В граматиката на любовта няма въпросителни знакове.”
― Иван Вазов, Под игото

“En général, les malheurs d'autrui suscitent inévitablement trois sentiments chez les tempéraments mesquins : tout d'abord le saisissement ; ensuite la satisfaction intérieure de ne pas être concerné ; enfin, une joie maligne et secrète. Tels sont les sombres instincts que recèle l'âme humaine dans ses tréfonds.”
― Ivan Vazov, Под игото

“The sword does not strike the bowed head,”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“,,Страхът прави жестоко сърцето, той е най-висшата й безобразна форма на егоизма.”
― Иван Вазов, Под игото

“Mistake ? of course we were mistaken. But the revolution and the victims were bound to be. I could even have wished they were more numerous and more terrible. We can’t destroy Turkey by force of arms, but we can gain the sympathies of the world, at least, by our frightful sufferings, by our martyrdom, by the rivers of blood that are now flowing in Bulgaria.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“At critical moments the courage and presence of mind of one man act like magic on the mass: anyone who wishes may then command them.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“In response to the appeal,”Be ready, we must die!”the church gave its pope, the school its teacher, the field its ploughman, the mother her son.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“That’s the way of the world!”he thought to himself;”over there they’re getting cannon ready, and here they’re marrying without a thought of the morrow.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“But a man, however strong he may be morally, must sooner or later give way to the laws of physics.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“But I prefer Moses with his An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth That’s the natural law, which I follow.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“You can do what you like to me, I’ve only got one life,” answered the old man firmly.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“Centuries of slavery had taught them the proverb, so degrading for humanity:”The sword does not strike the bowed head.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“This Stoyan,” he thought, “is the very type of the legendary Bulgarian haidoud, with his calm courage in facing death. Not a word of sorrow, of despair, or even of hope. He only wants to die looking his best. Ah! if this heroical fatalism has only passed into the Bulgarian of today, I shall be quite easy in mind as to the end of our struggle. That’s the struggle I seek for—that’s the strength I want—to know how to die, that’s half the battle.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“Yes, a glorious Czech name, and not unfitting for you; you’re a real Brzobegounek; haven’t you gone over half the Balkan Peninsula on foot ? So, then, Dobri Mouratliski, from tomorrow you will be Pan Yaroslav Brzobegounek, an Austrian Czech, born with a photographic apparatus on his back!”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“All right, Fratio, you try, then—an ox is bound by the horns, but a man by his word.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“But what is this freedom ? We are to have a prince—that is to say, a petty Sultan—-of our own; we’re to be oppressed by officials; monks and priests are to fatten on our toil; and the army will sap the very life- springs of the nation.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“When a man is irretrievably ruined, he often puts a bullet through his head or ends his life in some equally rapid and decisive manner. But a nation, however hopeless its bondage, never ends its own existence; it eats, drinks, begets children.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“the community squanders its energy on the trivial and personal cares of its daily life, and seeks relief and recreation in simple and easily obtainable material enjoyment.”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“sleeping garrison, wrapped in furs and”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke

“En la tormenta la naturaleza alcanza los motivos más sublimes de la poesía”
― Ivan Vazov, Под игото

“the dew of suffering to”
― Ivan Vazov, Under the Yoke