The Overcoat Quotes

“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

“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