Famous quotes containing the words russian and/or reversal:
“Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)