More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
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.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.