Nikolai Gogol Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
And in a very civil fashion did Manilov did so, even going as far as to address the man in the second person plural.
It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion
- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ...
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
I think that it is one of the most refined joys of this world to interchange thoughts, feelings, and impressions." (H'm!
Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even ... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
In his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other.
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.
They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In
Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he?
I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it.
Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.