Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, a...

Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful ...

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash pas...

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael a...

He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does ...

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole h...

Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. Th...

Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin ...

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

I am who I am and that's who I am

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil ...

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose ...

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfe...

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often pr...

I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but...

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already n...

To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is ...

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at las...

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us f...

Woman is in love with the devil.

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words a...

This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they ...

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in compari...

Here you will meet singular side-whiskers, tucked with extraordinary and amazing art under the neckt...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, be...

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I di...

But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds ...

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the...

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day ...

...all this convinced him that he had come to one of those revolting havens where pathetic depravity...

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.