Stanisław Jerzy Lec quotes - page 3

When everything has to be right, something isn't. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
He who had dug his own grave looks attentively at the gravedigger's work, but not pedantically: for this one digs a grave not for himself.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The Order of the Garter usually goes to people who already have full wardrobes.
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"I will just wag my finger at him", he said, putting it on the trigger.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by René Clair Vive la Liberte a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei."
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It is the high priests that make demands - not the gods they serve.
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
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Pants get shiny even on a throne.
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Telling lies does not work in advertising.
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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.
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Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
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When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
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If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
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Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal.
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography.
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