Author of quotes: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Page 10

What is stronger over us-passion or habit? Or all strong impulses, all the whirl of our desires and boiling passions, is only a consequence of our bright age, and only by the one seem deep and devastating?

Deep cold laugh can be hot powerful spark of eternal love.

Self-sacrifice, generosity in the decisive moment, courage, intelligence - and to all this fair Changeling selfishness, ambition, vanity, petty and personal sensitivity of many essential people.

It is, of course, Alexander the great hero, but why break chairs?

Be patient Cossack chieftain will!

Youth is happy that she has a future.

When people fall in love, he is still the sole, which, if soaked in water, take it, bend - it will bend.

Do not need to go far, who features in the shoulders.

Nothing could be nicer as to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature and to read an occasional book...

Such is the Russian people: a strong passion to become conceited with those who have even one rank it was higher, and a nodding acquaintance with a count or Duke for him better than any close friendships.

Disappeared and vanished being, nobody is protected, nobody, expensive, not interesting to anyone, not even drew attention and the nature of the observer is not passing to put on a pin of an ordinary fly to examine it under the microscope .

how much of human inhumanity, how many hidden ferocious rudeness in a sophisticated, educated and secular, God! even the man recognizes the light noble and honest...

I'd rather the person who says directly that he does not know the good, rather than one that is a bit of a hypocrite, he says like he knows what he does not know, and just shits and spoils.

The secular person there is nothing to blame, that he did not know anything about painting; but he understands the cards, knows a lot about good wine, horses - what to know more master?