Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogolwas a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective ethnicities...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1809
CityVelyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
CountryRussian Federation
journey years youth
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! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
wall rain russia
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
mirrors faces blame
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
laughing laugh-at-yourself
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
laughter hero journey
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
beautiful thinking accord
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
marvelous insignificant
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
men land thank-god
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
saws path straight-path
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
men merit would-be
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
sheep years cake
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.
glasses use literature
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
men gambling cards
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
men thinking firsts
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.