More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
I am who I am and that's who I am
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
