All Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
- O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Archimedes
- I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… Alluring
- We practically always excuse things when we understand them Excuse
- Women love only those whom they do not know! Funny
- Women only love those that they don’t know. Don T
- My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. Been
- Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. Ideas
- We almost always forgive those we understand. Almost Always
- I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced… Chain
- Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. Evil
- When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from… Acquired
- We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment. Commitment
- my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out Became
- Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. Achieve
- Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling. Carried
- Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their… Air
- If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much. Life
- An unusual beginning must have an unusual end. Beginning
- In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign… Ever Noticed
- It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions… Action