More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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.
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.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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.