Plays and Petersburg Tales Quotes

“Bugüne kadar kadınların kime aşık olduğunu kimseler bilmiyordu. Bunu ilk anlayan ben oldum. Kadın şeytana aşıktır.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales

“Exactly what office was held by the important personage and what this entailed remains a mystery to this day. All that we can say is that the important personage had only recently been made an important personage, and prior to that had been an unimportant personage.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales

“The boy was duly christened, and in the process he started crying and pulled an awful face as if he were having premonitions that one day he might become a titular councillor.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales

“This doctor was a distinguished-looking man, with splendid coal-black whiskers, and a bonny, fresh-complexioned wife; he ate fresh apples in the morning and kept his mouth remarkably clean, gargling for almost three quarters of an hour every morning and polishing his teeth with five different types of toothbrush.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales

“Whatever you might say, such things do happen—rarely perhaps, but they happen all the same.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales