Author of quotes: Alexander Ostrovsky

And then suddenly a blues will attack him: "I don't want, he says, to get drunk, I want to be executed about my sins."

And the crocodiles cry, but still they swallow a whole calf ...

He lives with someone else's grief, with someone else's tears. Are there no other simpler poor toilers? And to rob those, let them cry and moan grief. What does he care about other people's tears! He needs fun.

You will insophise, yes you will lie - only you will live for your own pleasure.

We women cannot live without tricks.

I want to eat every day; so honestly, not honestly, but you are obliged to drag them into the house.

As you want to live, you can't; and as you can, you don't want to.

Sensitive hearts always interfere with their own business and climb there with advice where they are not asked.

Here the side is hungry, the people live day after day, that snatch, so they are full. The drowning man is said to grasping at straws; well, starving for lying badly.

Why does a good lady in the company have a cheeky conversation? Because everything is in order on it: one is fitted to the other, one is neither shorter nor longer, the color is matched to the color, the pattern is adjusted to the pattern. Here her soul is growing.

Does a poor person have a character? A poor man and even a character! Wonderful, right! There's no good dress, that's all. If a person does not have clothes, that's a timid character.

All your life you have been talking about the good of society, about love for humanity. What have you done? Whom did they feed? Whom did they console? You only amuse yourself, you amuse yourself.

I am always for rich people. Whoever drinks champagne, smokes good cigars is a man, and the rest is nothing.

You know how to live your money with effect, it takes a lot of mind.