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The Overcoat and Other Short Stories QUOTES

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories QUOTES

1 " I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

2 " The said Ivan Dovgochkun, son of Nikifor, when I went to him with a friendly proposition, called me publicly by an epithet insulting and injurious to my honor, namely, a goose, whereas it is known to the whole district of Mirgorod, that I never was named after that disgusting animal, and have no intention of ever being named after it. And the proof of my noble extraction is, that, in the baptismal register to be found in the Church of the Three Bishops, the day of my birth, and likewise the fact of my baptism, are inscribed. But a goose, as is well known to every one who has any knowledge of science, cannot be inscribed in the baptismal register; for a goose is not a man, but a fowl: which, likewise, is sufficiently well known, even to persons who have not been to a seminary. But the evil-minded nobleman, being privy to all these facts, for no other purpose than to offer a deadly insult to my rank and calling, affronted me with the aforesaid foul word. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

3 " Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

4 " - How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?

- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for? "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

5 " At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

6 " And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope... "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

7 " in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

8 " All this has for me an indescribable charm, perhaps because I no longer see it, and because anything from which we are separated is pleasing to us. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

9 " But, in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

10 " Godine 2000, aprila 43.;

Martobra 86.
Između dana i noći;

Datum nikoji
Dan je bio bez datuma;

Datuma se ne sećam. Meseca takođe nije bilo. Bilo je vrag bi ga znao šta.;

Datum 1.;

Madrid Februarij
trideseti;

Januar iste te godine, koji je
nastupio posle februara;

25. datum;

Datum 34 godine
Februar 349. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

11 " UTTERLY NONSENSICAL things happen in this world. Sometimes there is absolutely no rhyme or reason in them: suddenly the very nose which had been going around with the rank of a state councillor and created such a stir in the city, found itself again, as though nothing were the matter, in its proper place, that is to say, between the two cheeks of Major Kovalyov. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

12 " And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

13 " In a certain Russian ministerial department—— But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was. There are in the whole of Russia no persons more sensitive than Government officials. Each of them believes if he is annoyed in any way, that the whole official class is insulted in his person. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

14 " Be quiet, Afanasii Ivanovich,” said Pulcheria Ivanovna: “you just like to talk, and that’s all. A dog is not clean; a dog soils things, and breaks everything: but the cat is a peaceable beast; she does no harm to any one. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

15 " Pulcheria Ivanovna reached out her hand to stroke her; but the ungrateful animal had evidently become too well used to robber cats, or adopted some romantic notion about love and poverty being better than a palace, for the cats were as poor as church-mice. "

― Nikolai Gogol , The Overcoat and Other Short Stories