Russian Classics Quotes

#1. I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

#2. I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Vladimir Putin

#3. All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most ... .

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

William Shakespeare

#5. Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Trust God To Do Things It His Way ... Not Your Way.

Cyc Jouzy

#7. What could he do with a pile of scratch that big? Jesper could just imagine his father saying, Land yourself in a pile of shit twice as big. Saints, he missed him.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#9. He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

Tove Jansson

#10. I think any workplace relationship is dangerous. That's been my personal experience. They haven't always worked out the best. But I know other people for whom it worked out great.

Kevin Rahm

#11. He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever
and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place.

Courtney Milan

#12. I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

Jamie Cullum

#13. Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Oscar Wilde

#14. But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed (because of Quantum), it's even more true that it changes the observer.

Terry Pratchett

#15. But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have been in her eyes at those moments yet he noticed nothing!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. Secrets create dark spaces within a relationship," she said. "When one person keeps secrets, the other person fills in the dark spaces with their fears and insecurities.

Lauren Rowe

#17. Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky