More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.