The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
-
-
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
NIKOLAI GOGOL -
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 -
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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 -
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 -
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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