The Nose Quotes

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

“But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“But nothing is permanent in this world. Joy in the second moment of its arrival is already less keen than in the first, is still fainter in the third, and finishes by coalescing with our normal mental state, just as the circles which the fall of a pebble forms on the surface of water, gradually die away.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“Intr-adevar, peste doua minute, nasul iesi. Era într-o uniforma cusuta în fir de aur, cu guler tare si înalt, cu pantaloni din piele de caprioara si cu sabie la sold. Dupa palaria cu pompon de pene, se putea vedea ca avea gradul de consilier de stat.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“On the twenty-fifth day of March, an extraordinary strange incident occurred in Petersburg.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

“This police commissary was a great patron of all the arts and industries; but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. “That’s the 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