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Nikolai Gogol Quotes

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer Picture Quote #1

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea Picture Quote #1

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views Picture Quote #1

Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest’s cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that? Picture Quote #1

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past Picture Quote #1

The sergeant’s widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself Picture Quote #1

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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter Picture Quote #1

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! Picture Quote #1

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their desce Picture Quote #1

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone Picture Quote #1

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter Picture Quote #1

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me Picture Quote #1

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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord Picture Quote #1

... nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book Picture Quote #1

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world Picture Quote #1

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless Picture Quote #1

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... and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain Picture Quote #1

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest’s cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that? (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) The sergeant’s widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) 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 Quotes) As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their desce (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) 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 Quotes) Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) ... nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) ... and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain (Nikolai Gogol Quotes) However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man (Nikolai Gogol Quotes)

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