Author of quotes: Nikolay Gogol. Page 1

It is necessary to respect the path and path of every person, if only they have already been chosen by him, and not distract him from the field he has already chosen.

When will these people not be fussy!

... you are my mother, and my father, and everything that is dear in the world. If the king called me and said: “Blacksmith Vakula, ask me for everything that is best in my kingdom, I will give it all to you. I will order you to make a gold forge, and you will forge with silver hammers.” “I don’t want,” I would say to the king, “neither expensive stones, nor a gold forge, nor your entire kingdom: better give me my Oksana!”

... but he was consoled by the fact that he himself deliberately wanted this and did not do it as he was advised.

... I fought only in the mornings with my husband, because that was the only time I saw him sometimes.

Wonderfully arranged in our world! Everything that lives in him tries to adopt and imitate one another.

Oksana was not yet seventeen years old, and in almost the entire world, both on the other side of Dikanka and on this side of Dikanka, there was nothing but talk about her. The boys proclaimed in droves that there had never been and never would be a better girl in the village.

At first he lived like a real Cossack: he did not work, slept three-quarters of the day, ate for six mowers and drank almost a whole bucket at a time.

...on the wall to the side, as you enter the church, Vakula painted a devil in hell, so disgusting that everyone spat when they passed by; and the women, as soon as the child burst into tears in their arms, brought him to the picture and said: “It’s a big deal, it’s like it’s painted!” - and the child, holding back his tears, glanced sideways at the picture and huddled close to his mother’s chest.

We do not control our actions; God rules them invisibly; we are only the instruments of his will, and through us he speaks to us, and therefore there is no need to skip anyone’s words without considering which of them needs to be applied to oneself.

I work, I work in silence as before. Sometimes I get sick, but sometimes God’s grace makes me feel fresh and cheerful, and then my work goes on fresher.

A bad manager always suspects that there is an attempt on his life and is afraid that he will be killed.

It almost always turns out that the advice and reproach that we give to others will be applied to you yourself.

Really, it's annoying that you looked into the newspaper, you read it - you feel melancholy, disgust - and nothing more.