Famous quotes containing the words nikolai vasilyevich gogol, vasilyevich gogol, nikolai vasilyevich, vasilyevich and/or gogol:
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)
“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)
“There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)
“The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)