Book: The good soldier Svejk

I believe that the Lord God, although he punishes people for their sins, still does not leave them at all with his mercy.

The mercy of God is infinite, but only for decent people, and not for any scum.

Caution is the mother of wisdom.

Walking under the escort of a policeman is a difficult moment in the life of every person.

War is war, nothing can be done - we must bring it to a victorious end.

The police department was a magnificent chamber of curiosities of predatory bureaucrats who believed that only the full use of prison and the gallows could defend the existence of intricate paragraphs.

Tomorrow will destroy even the plans of today.

The jailer, when angry, is capable of much, and when he is enraged, then do not expect mercy.

Describing his stay in a lunatic asylum, Schweik spoke of this institution with extraordinary praise: There

Mind well - two is better. One will advise one thing, the other - another, and the path is open to success.

The time will come - these emperors will fly one after another, and even the state prosecutor's office will not help them.

A great era needs great people. But in the world there are also unrecognized, modest heroes who have not won the glory of Napoleon. History says nothing about them. But with careful analysis, their glory would have eclipsed even the glory of Alexander the Great.

An oath is something like a declaration of love. Only you confess not to a beautiful girl, but to the state. Agree - the first is somehow nicer.

- Tell me why you have nothing, absolutely nothing, no?
Because I do not need anything.