More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
I am who I am and that's who I am
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.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.