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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
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
— 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
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
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ...
— Nikolai Gogol
However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
— Nikolai Gogol
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.
— 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
I think that it is one of the most refined joys of this world to interchange thoughts, feelings, and impressions." (H'm!
— 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
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
— Nikolai Gogol
You can always tell a pig by its grunt.
— Nikolai Gogol
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
— 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
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[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
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
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
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
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
Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.
— Nikolai Gogol
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
— 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
Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.
— 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
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
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
— Nikolai Gogol
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
— Nikolai Gogol