Nikolai Gogol Quotes (20 Quotes)

Turn round, my boy How ridiculous you look What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on Does everybody at the academy dress like that

Never mind beauty Concentrate on the things that matter.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

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

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before.

Believe me, my dear fellow, that so long as people refuse to give up everything for the sake of which they attack and devour each other on earth, that so long as they refuse to think of putting their spiritual fortune in order, there will be no fair distribution of earthly fortunes, either.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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.

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

What is utterly absurd happens in the world.

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

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

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.