"A duel is something gentlemen engage in; what a vulgar and lewd joker needs is a sharp smack in the hooter."
-Marek Migalski, a Euro MP from PiS, on Janusz Palikot, a PO deputy, who challenged him to a duel

"When I was sitting down to talk to him, I felt as if I were talking to a poisoner. I had the impression I should watch what I'm eating, drinking and breathing in."
-Roman Giertych, former deputy prime minister and leader of the League of Polish Families, on ex-prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński from the Law and Justice (PiS) party

"His ideological zeal has a fanatical quality, and fanaticism is dangerous in any form, even if it is the fanaticism of honesty."
-Jarosław Gowin, a deputy from the ruling Civic Platform (PO) party, on Mariusz Kamiński, the dismissed head of the Central Anticorruption Office

"The man will be called to account for crossing the border illegally. His concerns for his runaway herd may be mitigating circumstances."
-A border guard on a farmer from northern Poland who crossed the Russian border while chasing his runaway herd of cows
Compiled from press reports