More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
I am who I am and that's who I am
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.