Nikolai Gogol: Likeness

Nikolai Gogol was Russian writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Nikolai Gogol: 78 quotes5 likes

“There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.”

Nikolai Gogol book Dead Souls

Vol. I, ch. 5
Dead Souls (1842)

“Russia, are you not speeding along like a fiery and matchless troika?”

Nikolai Gogol book Dead Souls

Source: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter XI

“I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.”

"Old World Landowners" (1835)

“Apparently that does sometimes happen. Apparently even men like Chichikov are transformed into poets for a few moments in their lives: though the word "poet" would be an exaggeration here.”

Nikolai Gogol book Dead Souls

Source: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter VIII

“"Turn around, son! What a funny figure you are! Are those priests' cassocks you are wearing? And do they all go about like that at the academy?" With these words old Bulba greeted his two sons who had been studying at the Kiev college and had come home to their father.”

"Taras Bulba" (1835)