More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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.