List of Karel Capek Quotes

Great God Of The Ants, Thou Hast Granted Victory To Thy Servants. I Appoint Thee Honorary Colonel.

I've Found A Place That Would Amaze You. People Used To Live There, But Now It's All Overgrown And No One Goes There. Absolutely No One - Only Me... Just A Little House And A Garden. And Two Dogs.

Relativism Is Neither A Method Of Fighting, Nor A Method Of Creating, For Both Of These Are Uncompromising And At Times Even Ruthless; Rather, It Is A Method Of Cognition.

Dumb Dog. I Bought A Dog Whistle. He Won't Use It.

As Is Well Known, All Collectors Are Prepared To Steal Or Murder If It Is A Question Of Getting Another Piece For Their Collection; But This Does Not Lower Their Moral Character In The Least.

I Certainly Don't Know If You Could Claim That Every Theft Is Wrong, But I'll Prove To You That Every Theft Is Forbidden, By Simply Locking You Up.

Gentlemen, Four-fifths Of The Earth's Surface Is Covered By Seas; That Is Unquestionably Too Much; The World's Surface, The Map Of Oceans And Dry Land, Must Be Corrected. We Shall Give The World The Workforce Of The Sea, Gentlemen. This Will No Longer Be The Style Of Captain Van Toch; We Shall Replace The Adventure Story Of Pearls By The Hymnic Paean Of Labour.

Robots Of The World, You Are Ordered To Exterminate The Human Race. Do Not Spare The Men. Do Not Spare The Women. Preserve Only The Factories, Railroads, Machines, Mines, And Raw Materials. Destroy Everything Else. Then Return To Work. Work Must Not Cease.

You Ought To Know That October Is The First Spring Month.

The Average Cooking In The Average Hotel For The Average Englishman Explains To A Large Extent The English Bleakness And Taciturnity. Nobody Can Beam And Warble While Chewing Pressed Beef Smeared With Diabolical Mustard. Nobody Can Exult Aloud While Ungluing From His Teeth A Quivering Tapioca Pudding.

Among Human Beings, A Cat Is Merely A Cat; Among Cats, A Cat Is A Prowling Shadow In A Jungle.

The English Gentleman Is A Combination Of Silence, Courtesy, Dignity, Sport, Newspapers And Honesty.