More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.