The Nose Quotes

“Whatever you might say, such things do happen—rarely perhaps, but they happen all the same.”
― 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

“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“But the most incomprehensible thing of all is, how authors can choose such subjects for their stories.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol Classics: The Mantle: The Overcoat

“But nothing in this world lasts long, and therefore joy, in the minute that follows the first, is less lively; in the third minute it becomes still weaker, and finally it merges imperceptibly with one’s usual state of mind, as a ring in the water, born of a stone’s fall, finally merges with the smooth surface.”
― Nikolai Gogol