Best Nikolai Gogol Quotes
- You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. Grown
- Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Countless
- Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. Belief
- ...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... Coarseness
- Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die Ashes
- I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the… All
- But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. All
- The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. Becomes
- Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all All
- I am who I am and that's who I am Inspirational
- What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… Age
- [F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it… Contemporary
- Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… All
- It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ… Alive
- They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me. Don T
- Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. Elderly
- We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant. Funny
- Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the… All
- He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not… All
- The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… Afterwards
- What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. Inspirational
- However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. Confound
- But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life,… Beat
- This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a… Architect
- ...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… Activity