Anna-karenina Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Lord have mercy! Pardon and help us!" he repeated the words that suddenly and unexpectedly sprang to his lips. And he, an unbeliever, repeated…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens. Nós fazemos do amor algo enorme, mas elas sempre se mantém ‘terre-à-terre’.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see that it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth showed signs…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy