Dostoevsky Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.”

— Mark Twain

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“Why do all these Russian men have to be so devastatingly, frustratingly handsome?”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“I Want To Marry A Russian Solider And Have Twenty Children”

— Maria Romanov

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely…

— Vladimir Putin

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The great writer…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky