The Nose Quotes

“But there is nothing enduring in this world, and that is why even joy is not as keen in the moment that follows the first; and a moment later it grows weaker still and finally merges imperceptibly into one's usual state of mind, just as a ring on the water, made by the fall of a pebble, merges finally into the smooth surface.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "It is a thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“He had been a collegiate assessor for only two years and therefore could not forget it for
a single minute.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose