War And Peace Quotes

“What nonsense it is,” Natásha suddenly exclaimed, “about honeymoons, and that the greatest happiness is at first! On the contrary, now is the best of all.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Willarski was a married man with a family, busy with his family affairs, his wife’s affairs, and his official duties. He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Those eyes expressed entreaty, shame at having to ask, fear of a refusal, and readiness for relentless hatred in case of such refusal.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“So wives of living men have started marrying again! Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty? You have been forestalled, my dear! It was thought of long ago. It is done in all the brothels,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“this general flight has been arranged to get all the old maids married off.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in innocent sufferings.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“To Pierre that smile said plainly: “I am well, but my health is now of no use to anyone.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Ah, my dear fellow!” rejoined Karatáev, “never decline a prison or a beggar’s sack!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“I don’t understand. I have nothing to say,” her eyes replied.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“What holiness is there in giving concerts in the choir? I don’t like it, it’s just self-indulgence!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“You noticed nothing?” her look asked.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“The whole expression of his face told her that he had not forgotten the morning’s talk, that his decision remained in force, and only the presence of visitors hindered his speaking of it to her now.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“In Moscow he felt at peace, at home, warm and dirty as in an old dressing gown.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Her face said: “Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot but know? Why speak, when words cannot express what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“There, that’s me!” the expression of her face seemed to say as she caught sight of herself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“continued Véra—mentioning “our days” as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of “our days” and that human characteristics change with the times”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“Natásha did not answer at once but only looked up with a smile that said reproachfully: “How can you ask such a question?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“I’d be glad to sit beside you and rest: I’m tired; but you see how they keep asking me, and I’m glad of it, I’m happy and I love everybody, and you and I understand it all,” and much, much more was said in her smile.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“I have long been waiting for you,” that frightened happy little girl seemed to say by the smile that replaced the threatened tears,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“No, Mamma, don’t speak to him! What nonsense!” said Natásha in the tone of one being deprived of her property.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“I should think so!” replied Natásha’s laughing eyes.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“as if intimating by that smile that he and Prince Andrew understood the insignificance of the people with whom he had just been talking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“The looks the visitors cast on him seemed to say: “And what is he sitting here for?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“and as always happens to those in a bad humor, it seemed to him that everyone regarded him with aversion and that he was in everybody’s way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“were playing sváyka,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

“some with more innocent games, such as quoits and skittles.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace