Nikolai Gogol Quotes


"Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Soul, Body, May)

"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: God, Land, Man, Respect)

"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Blame)

"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: World)

"It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable."
- Nikolai Gogol
"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Beauty, Will)

"Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Sea)

"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Life, Joy, Past, Will)

"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
(Related: Experience, Idea, Agriculture, Land, Man)

"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
(Related: First, Man, Thinking)

"The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: May)

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