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Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Type:
Writer Quotes
Category:
Russian Writer Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 31, 1809
Date of Death:
March 4, 1852
Nationality:
Russian
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Nikolai Gogol

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions!
Nikolai Gogol

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Nikolai Gogol

Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before.
Nikolai Gogol

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai Gogol

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Nikolai Gogol

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
Nikolai Gogol

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol

Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that?
Nikolai Gogol

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Nikolai Gogol

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Nikolai Gogol


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