Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Leo Tolstoy Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.” — Pravin K. Shah Copy Share Image
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but… — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
“Tsar Alexander I was prone to tears and he did weep over Borodino, but not at Borodino, as Tolstoy would have it.… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
“But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano.… — Velimir Khlebnikov Copy Share Image
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike;… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ ” said Mother. “Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy wrote, 'The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.' He understood this service as a religious duty. For me, I… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Many a present-day Alcibiades, who laves all the week in the muddy waters of life, comes on Sundays to cleanse himself in… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
