Faces Quote by Mel Brooks

“Ivan felt an intense hatred for him before he had thought about him at all. Suddenly he realised his presence and felt an irresistible…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Ivan had never thought of his nightmares as being insufficiently imaginative, before tonight. Dark, wet, constricted, underground, check. How had he left out biohazards?…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“He usually shrank from extreme measures. Mirkovitch’s bloodthirsty speeches grated upon his nerves, and having spent a miracle of ingenuity in combining some deadly…

— Emmuska Orczy

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

— J. Lynn

There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

— Publilius Syrus

“To understand what was in Ivan’s mind, one has to think back to what the world was like before Machiavelli. The modern calculus of…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he regards Putin…

— David Brooks

“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible…

— Leo Tolstoy

Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?"…

— Jeaniene Frost