Customs Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

— Vladimir Putin

“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

When I write, I don't translate for white readers… Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific,…

— Toni Morrison

“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

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

— Mark Twain

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean…

— Leo Tolstoy

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The whole purpose of Russian propaganda is to show that the U.S. and U.S. politics is filled with hubris and hypocrisy and to show…

— Fiona Hill