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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. — Nikolai Gogol

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol.
"That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either. — Terry Pratchett

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. — Nikolai Gogol

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. — Nikolai Gogol

And in a very civil fashion did Manilov did so, even going as far as to address the man in the second person plural. — Nikolai Gogol

For a loaf is something baked and a nose is something different. — Nikolai Gogol

For Gogol Ganguli- The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. — Nikolai Gogol

Woman is in love with the devil. — 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

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. — Nikolai Gogol

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. — Nikolai Gogol

And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion — Nikolai Gogol

Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose. — Vladimir Nabokov

- 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? — Nikolai Gogol

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? — Nikolai Gogol

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men. — Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil. — Nikolai Gogol

Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls. — Vladimir Nabokov

In my spare time I didn't go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky. — Elena Ferrante

A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ... — Nikolai Gogol

You can always tell a pig by its grunt. — Nikolai Gogol

With a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment? — Nikolai Gogol

In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways. — Kal Penn

One cannot expect men not to get drunk when there is nothing to do! — Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. — Nikolai Gogol

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ... — Nikolai Gogol

Despair at not reaching ideal perfection are among the reasons given. Again it is said — Nikolai Gogol

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards. — Nikolai Gogol

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something. — Nikolai Gogol

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die — Nikolai Gogol

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. — Nikolai Gogol

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter. — Nikolai Gogol

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. — Nikolai Gogol

Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed. — Dan Brown

I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli

I think that it is one of the most refined joys of this world to interchange thoughts, feelings, and impressions." (H'm! — Nikolai Gogol

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; — Nikolai Gogol

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity — Nikolai Gogol

I shall laugh my bitter laugh. — Nikolai Gogol

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. — Nikolai Gogol

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? — Nikolai Gogol

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. — Nikolai Gogol

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners ... — Nikolai Gogol

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. — Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant. — Nikolai Gogol

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. — Nikolai Gogol

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he? — Nikolai Gogol

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck. — Nikolai Gogol

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. — Nikolai Gogol

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. — Nikolai Gogol

[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. — Nikolai Gogol

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one: — Nikolai Gogol

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views — Nikolai Gogol

They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In — Nikolai Gogol

There are passions that it is not for man to choose. — Nikolai Gogol

Would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame — Nikolai Gogol

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before. — Nikolai Gogol

The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little. — Nikolai Gogol

How dared you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose? — Nikolai Gogol

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want — Nikolai Gogol

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. — Nikolai Gogol

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. — Nikolai Gogol

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs. — Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. — Nikolai Gogol

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? — Nikolai Gogol

They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me. — Nikolai Gogol

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write! — Nikolai Gogol

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul. — Nikolai Gogol

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity. — Nikolai Gogol

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean. — Nikolai Gogol

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says. — Nikolai Gogol

Goodness, how sad is our Russia! — Nikolai Gogol

Keep not money, but keep good people's company. — Nikolai Gogol

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. — Nikolai Gogol

It is dull in this world, gentlemen! — Nikolai Gogol

I am who I am and that's who I am — Nikolai Gogol

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep. — Nikolai Gogol

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. — Nikolai Gogol