Poor Liza and Other Tales Quotes

“The wonders of the creation may be described, but the springs of the heart operate in the heart alone.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Happiness dwells not in a solitary bosom, nor has heaven designed your beauties to molder in the cold shades of neglect.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“But the mysteries which surround the tomb do not worry the heart of the upright and good.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“True happiness can only be found in the paths of virtue.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Liza,” she said, “how perfect are the works of the creation. I have passed upwards of sixty years in admiration of the blessings of providence, and I still find new causes for our gratitude.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“When a woman seriously fixes a determination, nothing can exceed the resolution, constancy, and perseverance of her conduct.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Women complain about men, and men complain about women. Who is right?”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“For it is a fatal truth that virtue, the most exalted, cannot always shield the human heart from the severest afflictions.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Love which blinds us to defects and represents things not as they are, but as we wish them.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“There is a critical moment in the calendar of love, and its power is infinite.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Those who have not been fathers, cannot know a father’s feelings.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“the daily occupation of a person serves as a mirror to display the propensities of the heart.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Those pedagogues were not then in existence, and secondly, the Russians in general knew little about books. They brought up their children as nature rears her plants.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“Whoever knows the human heart must feel that fruition is the rock which wrecks imprudent love.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales

“I will not sacrifice to the empty opinion of the world that sensible, innocent, and, confiding heart which has placed its tranquility in me.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales