More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
I am who I am and that's who I am
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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 descendants will also laugh afterwards.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.