Alexander Pushkin

“what is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.”

— Alexander Pushkin

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

— Alexander Pushkin

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

— Alexander Pushkin

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

— Alexander Pushkin

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

— Alexander Pushkin

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

— Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

— Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

— Alexander Pushkin

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

— Alexander Pushkin

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”

— Alexander Pushkin

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe…

— Alexander Pushkin

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

— Alexander Pushkin

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

— Alexander Pushkin

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

— Alexander Pushkin

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to…

— Alexander Pushkin

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin

“But flaming youth in all it's madness Keeps nothing of its heart concealed: It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are…

— Alexander Pushkin

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can…

— Alexander Pushkin

“I love their feet—although you’ll find That all of Russia scarcely numbers Three pairs of shapely feet ... And yet, How long…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Ever peaceful be you slumber Though your days were few in number On this earth-spite took its toll- Yet shall heaven have…

— Alexander Pushkin

“In alien lands I keep the body Of ancient native rites and things: I gladly free a little birdie At celebration of…

— Alexander Pushkin

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's…

— Alexander Pushkin

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

— Alexander Pushkin

“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Perhaps you'd like, you gentle fellow, To hear what I'm prepared to say On "kinfolk" and their implications? Well, here's my view…

— Alexander Pushkin

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Я пережил свои желанья / I've lived to bury my desires Я пережил свои желанья, Я разлюбил свои мечты; Остались мне одни…

— Alexander Pushkin

I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause…

— Alexander Pushkin

“55 But I was born for peaceful roaming, For country calm and lack of strife; My lyre sings! And in the gloaming…

— Alexander Pushkin

There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to…

— Alexander Pushkin

“.. and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's…

— Alexander Pushkin

“This, then, is the fate of your sons, Oh Rome, oh celebrated power! Singer of love, singer of the gods, Tell me,…

— Alexander Pushkin

“The wondrous moment of our meeting... Still I remember you appear Before me like a vision fleeting, A beauty's angel pure and…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Я вас любил.../I loved you once... Я вас любил: любовь еще, быть может В душе моей угасла не совсем; Но пусть она…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Lizaveta listened to him in terror. So all those passionate letters, those ardent desires, this bold obstinate pursuit—all this was not love!…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Herman stood before her. She drew back at sight of him, trembling violently. "Where have you been?" she asked in a frightened…

— Alexander Pushkin

“For whom are you preserving your secret? For your grandsons? They are rich enough without it; they do not know the worth…

— Alexander Pushkin

“I saw Derzhavin only once in my life but shall never forget that occasion. It was in 1815 at a public examination…

— Alexander Pushkin

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

— Alexander Pushkin

“From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.”

— Alexander Pushkin