More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
I am who I am and that's who I am
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.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
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.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.