More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.