Famous Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

  • And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy – Vladimir Nabokov

    And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy– Vladimir Nabokov

  • The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty. – Vladimir Nabokov

    The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. – Vladimir Nabokov

    Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit. – Vladimir Nabokov

    Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. – Vladimir Nabokov

    The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • The lost glove is happy. – Vladimir Nabokov

    The lost glove is happy.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • Dear Jesus, do something. – Vladimir Nabokov

    Dear Jesus, do something.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. – Vladimir Nabokov

    Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • … she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple. – Vladimir Nabokov

    … she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.– Vladimir Nabokov

  • And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b – Vladimir Nabokov

    And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference b– Vladimir Nabokov