Famous Nikolai Gogol Quotes

  • I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity – Nikolai Gogol

    I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity– Nikolai Gogol

  • Woman is in love with the devil. – Nikolai Gogol

    Woman is in love with the devil.– Nikolai Gogol

  • He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation. – Nikolai Gogol

    He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.– Nikolai Gogol

  • He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.– Nikolai Gogol

  • Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries. – Nikolai Gogol

    Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.– Nikolai Gogol

  • A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. – Nikolai Gogol

    A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.– Nikolai Gogol

  • Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. – Nikolai Gogol

    Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.– Nikolai Gogol

  • Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. – Nikolai Gogol

    Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.– Nikolai Gogol

  • I am who I am and that’s who I am – Nikolai Gogol

    I am who I am and that’s who I am– Nikolai Gogol

  • Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. – Nikolai Gogol

    Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.– Nikolai Gogol