More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.