Brain Quote by Nikolai Gogol

it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments.…

— Nikolai Gogol

“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on…

— Nikolai Gogol

I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also…

— Nikolai Gogol

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and…

— Nikolai Gogol

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through…

— Nikolai Gogol

“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.”

— Nikolai Gogol

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

— Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like…

— Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

— Nikolai Gogol

“The fair-haired man was one of those people in whose character there is at first sight a certain obstinacy. Before you can open your…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the…

— Nikolai Gogol