More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
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.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty