Quotes from The Witcher

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Drinking alone is like shitting in company.

Chaos is the most dangerous thing in this world. It is all around us all the time. Volatile and powerful. Magic is organizing chaos.

You can't outrun destiny just because you're terrified of it. It's coming.

Geralt: "I'm not your friend."
Jaskier: "Really? Oh, you usually just let strangers rub chamomile onto your lovely bottom?"

Toss a coin to your Witcher
O Valley of Plenty!
Toss a coin to your Witcher
A friend of humanity

It's hard to make a living on the main roads.

During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councillors, councillors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows, and kings who looked like thieves.

The path to true strength lies not in humble faith, but in believing in oneself.

We don't kill out of fear. We kill to save lives.

Faith's a simple medicine for desperate souls.

Geralt: "Fear is an illness. If you catch it and you leave it untreated, it can consume you."
Ciri: "How do you treat it?"
Geralt: "You face it."

Love and blood. They both possess a mighty power.

Fringilla Vigo: "Unlike you, I'm not one to waste Chaos on frivolous nonsense."
Yennefer: "I wouldn't call burning half your forces frivolous."

At least conjure me up some decent food before we get to Shitgaard.

Nivellen: "You can bathe in the next room."
Geralt: "I'm fine."
Nivellen: "You, my friend are very far from fine. You reek of old horse."
Geralt: "Part of my charm."
Nivellen: "You always were a horse's arse, anyway."

If you want. But you'd be married off to the nearest Lord of Bad Breath. He'd be seeking to claim your throne too. The food is good there, though.

Monsters are more than just horrid looks, claws and teeth. Monsters are born of deeds done.

Kings die, realms fall, but magic endures.

Jaskier: "Actually, I've always wanted to know, do witchers ever retire?"
Geralt: "Yeah, when they slow and get killed."

I will not suffer tonight sober just because you hid your sausage in the wrong royal pantry.

I need no one. And the last thing I want is someone needing me.

Nobody smart plays fair.

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and the best thing it can do for us is to die.

When a humble bard
Graced a ride along
With Geralt of Rivia
Along came this song

Destiny is just the embodiment of the soul's desire to grow.

It is not in my nature to be cruel, but you have taken someone from me. Someone I care about deeply. So now I will take your knowledge, your memories, your very being, and leave you cold and helpless, trapped in the eternal darkness of your own mind.

There I am, freezing my bollocks off in the middle of a grain field for the second night straight, when the farmer's wife comes sneaking out to tell me that I'm wasting my time. It wasn't a mora her husband saw leaving that room. No. It was the fing field hand! And now she's wailing, "Oh, what are we gonna do? My husband won't pay you if you don't deliver a mora head!"
So I pulled out my sword and I said, "Bet he'll pay double for the field hand's."

Sometimes, you have to compromise in order to survive.

There is no conjuring something from nothing. There is a give and a take.

Renfri: "People call you a monster too. Why not kill them?"
Geralt: "'Cause then I am what they say."

"What do you want?"
Yennefer: "Everything."

My world is cruel. You enter, you survive, you die.

Woman: "This place isn't safe if you’re alone."
Ciri: "Then it's the same as every other place."

Thank you so much for this. My other clothes were ready to run away by themselves.

Lesson number two: Know when it's time to stop moving.

Here's your first lesson: As in life, it is impossible always to be fully prepared for battle. Keep your sword close and keep moving.

Jaskier: "You smell of death and destiny, heroics and heartbreak."
Geralt: "It's onion."

A witcher is a mutant and their trait in particular is monster hunting. You are almost universally hated by every species on the continent. It's unlikely you're gonna have a cheery personality. But Gerald himself, despite his stony exterior, is actually quite good and very capable of doing bad things. Gerald isn't simply a white knight, he isn't simply a harsh monster hunter. He's an incredible blend of the two.

We wish to rule, yes. Where is the fault in that? Everyone wants to rule, and I know how to do that better than any other monarch in this city.

An enormous grey owl landed soundlessly on the deck's railing, fluttered its wings, ruffled its feathers and turned into Philippa Eilhart, equally ruffled and wet.