Quotes by Nikolai Gogol

About Nikolai Gogol:

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective nationalities.
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And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show...

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El que hoy es un impetuoso joven se quedaría horrorizado si contemplara el retrato de lo que será en su vejez. Llevaos con vosotros todos los impulsos humanos cuando salgáis de los fáciles años de la juventud para entrar en la severa virilidad q...

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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

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Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligenc...

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This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

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

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

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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

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

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

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

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

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

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Il zapacise pur si simplu multimea aceea nespus de pestrita, de parca diavolul faramase lumea bucati si le adunase apoi la loc, fara niciun sens, fara niciun rost.

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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.

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

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, grad...

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Author Bio

  • NameNikolai Gogol
  • Descriptionwriter
  • BornApril 1, 1809
  • DiedMarch 4, 1852
  • CountryRussian Empire
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Novelist; Historian