After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.

- Jaroslav Hašek

I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

- Jaroslav Hašek

Great times call for great men.

- Jaroslav Hašek

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

- Jaroslav Hašek

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul h…

- Jaroslav Hašek

When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get…

- Jaroslav Hašek