Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a…

— David Baldacci

“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play this game.…

— Tom Clancy

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

— Mark Twain

“So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Sherry D. Ficklin

Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its…

— Daniel Fried

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

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

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like…

— Carine Roitfeld