Winged expressions from works of Russian literature

Quotes from great Russian poets (300 quotes)

This collection contains quotes from great Russian poets. These are the most interesting aphorisms of great people. Choose the smartest quotes from Russian writers and poets in this selection.

Happiness does not happen when you have everything, but when you don’t have something and you want it and achieve it - that’s happiness. Having achieved it, you are often unhappy, because there is one less desire in your life.

Willy-nilly, a person must admit that his life is not limited to his personality from birth to death and that the goal conscious of him is an achievable goal and that in striving for it - in the consciousness of greater and greater sinfulness and in greater and greater fulfillment of all the truth in his life and in the life of the world and is and was and will always be the work of his life, inseparable from the life of the whole world.

In silence, good must happen.

Civilization, the city, the tram, the bathhouse - this is the cause of the occurrence of nervous diseases. Our ancestors in the Stone Age drank and drank a lot, and didn’t understand any nerves.

It is customary for everyone to live and burn, But then you will only immortalize life, When you draw a path for it to light and greatness with Your sacrifice.

The fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it! A lesson to good fellows.

Sleep quickly - someone else needs your pillow.

You won't learn to skate if you're afraid to be funny. The ice of life is slippery.

..the worst of bad habits is to decide on a feat in which there is more politeness than compassion.

If a person has not lost the ability to expect happiness, he is happy. This is happiness. I loved your white dress, I fell out of love with the sophistication of dreams.

Freedom of speech is needed by a very limited circle of people, and the majority, even intellectuals... do their job without it.

Does my life have meaning that will not be destroyed by the inevitable death that awaits me?

Loving others is a heavy cross, But you are beautiful without any twists.

Let's take the verb to die. It’s one thing - he died, another - he passed away into eternity, passed away, another thing - he fell asleep, or fell asleep forever, or fell into a deep sleep, or went to his forefathers, passed away, and a completely different thing - he died, died, died, fell, bent, died, died, gave oak, played in the box, etc. Academician Shcherba divided the language into four stylistic layers: Solemn - face, taste. Neutral - face, there is. Familiar - mug, gobble up. Vulgar - muzzle, eat.

Even cruel hearts are overcome by a kind request.

To love means to live the life of the one you love.

Oh, this is not an easy job - dragging a hippopotamus out of the swamp!

Better pie in the sky than a lump in your throat.

Labor is a necessary condition of human life, and labor gives benefit to man.

The past is always beautiful and never tragic. The real thing is tragic. An outlived tragedy is a legend.

A very small degree of hope is enough to bring love to life. After two or three days, hope may disappear; nevertheless, love has already been born.

If life does not seem to you to be a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected.

If you want to shoot a musician, insert a loaded gun into the piano he will be playing.

Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it.

Life is a deception with enchanting melancholy...

Don't put out the fire, otherwise you won't be able to sleep!

Describing a flower with love for nature embodies civic feelings much more than denouncing bribe-takers...

The beautiful is life.

If someone decided to prove his right to life through suicide, how much would he prove?

A person cannot truly improve unless he helps others improve.

Life is not a reward for the vanquished.

A lazy person in dishonest peace is similar to motionless swamp water, which produces nothing except stench and despicable vermin.

Either you move up one step today, or gather your strength to rise to that step tomorrow...

Life is nothing more than a constantly conquered contradiction.

He who cannot do little, cannot do more.

Freedom is the ability to say that two and two are four.

Literature serves as a representative of the mental life of the people.

Whoever reaches old age will feel illnesses from the luxuries of his youth, therefore, in his youth he should avoid luxuries.

It's hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember joy. Happiness leaves no memorable scars.

I hate all kinds of dead things! I love all kinds of life!

There are two forces - two fatal forces, We have been at their fingertips all our lives, From cradle days to the grave - One is Death, the other is Human Judgment.

Life is always accompanied by effort, hardship and hard work, because it is not a garden with beautiful flowers.

Learn to live even when life becomes unbearable. Make it useful.

Russian history before Peter the Great is a continuous dirge, and after Peter the Great it is one criminal case.

A message to writers: there is no need to invent intrigues and plots. Take advantage of the stories that life itself provides.

If there is no meaning in death, then there was no meaning in life.

We must admit that the position of Russian God is not a sinecure.

A person who sees life in its true light and interprets it romantically is doomed to despair.

Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates ourselves.

But for someone who loved and was loved, happiness is the very memory of love, the longing for it and the thought that somewhere there is a person who also thinks about you, and perhaps in this vain, difficult, and It becomes easier for him in the midst of gray everyday life when he remembers his youth.

Nothing encourages a coward more than the cowardice of another person.

Do not have love for your husband that resembles friendship. Have a friendship for him that would be like love.

All of us, Russian people, until old age remain in some ways children, always waiting for gifts, fairy tales, something extraordinary, warming, even burning through the soul, covered with the scale of rudeness, but in the middle unprotected, which is also in a worn-out, torn, old body often manages to survive in chick down.

What is easy to read was written with great difficulty.

Late woman's love blooms not with an azure scarlet color, but with a dog's furious, roadside drunkenness.

But man himself, with his aspiring mind, came up with thousands of ways to destroy life and achieved such variety and perfection in this!

Anyone who does not expect to have a million readers should not write a single line.

A real man is a man who remembers exactly a woman's birthday and never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers a woman's birthday, but knows exactly how old she is...

Power is always heartless, always treacherously shameful, always immoral.

The first and most important quality of a woman is meekness.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

And the smoke of the Fatherland is sweet and pleasant to us!

Everything that happens once may never happen again. But whatever happens twice will undoubtedly happen a third time.

There are two ways to command a woman, but no one knows them.

Gentlemen, mark my words, children must be made with your own hands...

A man who has never been wounded by loving a woman is half a man.

God created us in his image and likeness. But where is the confidence that he worked in a realistic manner?

... We do not distinguish intentions from the crime itself, and this is the superiority of Soviet legislation over bourgeois legislation!

Anyone who has the ability to see beauty never ages.

In fact, life is simple, but we persistently complicate it.

It’s so good to die... there’s nothing to reproach yourself with yet.

You can lie on the bridge and watch the water flow. Or run, or wander through the swamp in red boots, or curl up in a ball and listen to the rain pattering on the roof. It's very easy to be happy.

A woman is like tea leaves. You will never know its strength until it boils.

Russian people love to laugh at their neighbors and laugh mercilessly.

If you don't like what you get, change what you give.

True love is like a ghost: everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Elders are not very respected these days.

Let the world live as it sees fit, and it will allow you to live as you choose.

Women, of course, are smarter. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?

After all, out of love your parents are strict with you, out of love they scold you, everyone thinks to teach you good. Well, I don’t like it now. And the children will go around praising people that their mother is a grumbler, that their mother does not allow them to pass, that they are squeezing them out of the world. And, God forbid, you can’t please your daughter-in-law with some word, so the conversation started that the mother-in-law was completely fed up.

Decisions made in the dead of night usually fade in the light of day.

It always seems that we are loved because we are good. But we don’t realize that they love us because those who love us are good.

You can’t tell anyone to say it: if they don’t dare to your face, they will stand behind your back.

The paradox of reading: it takes us away from reality in order to fill reality with meaning.

If a woman can't decide what she should wear, it's a sure sign that a man is involved.

The historian tells what happened; the dramatic poet shows how it was. It takes the viewer to the very scene of the action and makes him a participant in the events.

The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side.

The heart has no wrinkles, it only has scars.

There are only two kinds, there is nowhere to go: either a patriot of his fatherland, or a scoundrel of his life.

The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.

Women believe that they dress up for the sake of men or for their own pleasure; but in truth, they dress up for each other.

If love had been equal on both sides, there would have been no tears.

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it.

It is human to sympathize with grief; making it easier is divine.

There is no worse shame than this, when you have to be ashamed of others.

The language of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky is great and powerful... And we, of course, stand for every resident of Russia to have the opportunity to learn the great Russian language.

In a sea of ​​love, a woman feels like a fish in water.

Happiness will not follow you if you run from it.

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

Every woman who loves is a queen.

The wisdom of words is needed only by the poor in spirit, while the rich are silent, note this, poet, sage and eternal chatterbox at all crossroads! It is enough for you that I have stooped to a word.

The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life.

Life will forever remain an unsurpassed school for people. Look back at the path you've traveled, take a closer look at it and see that it always contained enough events and things you needed for...

An intellectual does not have a biography, but a list of books he has read.

Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before.

Silent diamonds often have a stronger effect on the female mind than any eloquence.

Everything happened in the past, everything will happen again, And only the moment of recognition is sweet for us.

We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.

He who loves for high moral virtues remains faithful all his life, because he becomes attached to something permanent.

I saw a mortal child who came from another world - from the world of the Dead.

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.

Sitting down in front of the mirror in the morning, a woman arranges a trial for herself, and every day the judge in her soul becomes more and more watchful, but the lawyer becomes more and more sophisticated.

There is mercy from death to life, and there is also mercy for a righteous death.

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity.

Knowing Russian means opening your eyes to the world.

The Grand Inquisitor follows the saints with depressing consistency.

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.

The best moment of love is when you go up the stairs to your beloved.

Attempts to establish one hundred percent control over everything and everyone leads to such an element, to such a lack of control, in comparison with which any anarchy truly seems like the mother of order.

Thanks to the Russian language, we, representatives of multilingual literatures, know each other well. Mutual enrichment of literary experience occurs through the Russian language, through the Russian book. Publishing a book by any writer in our country in Russian means reaching the widest possible readership.

Civil society in Russia is doomed to the role of no one’s grandmother on the mezzanine...

How strange, even unnatural, that there is a breed of people in the world marked by the divine gift of living only by imagination.

I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage.

When you don't take your eyes off a woman, she becomes prettier before your eyes.

War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature.

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

Decoration - something that can emphasize beauty, but not add what is missing.

After all, if the stars light up, does that mean someone needs it?

Throughout the 18th century, New Russian literature developed the rich scientific language that we now possess; the language is flexible and powerful, capable of expressing the most abstract ideas of German metaphysics and the light, sparkling play of French wit.

A woman is wrong until she cries.

The living cares for the living, And the dead sleep in deep sleep...

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and truly, another name is more precious than the thing itself.

Only a woman in a stunning hat can rebel against high heels.

Follow the rule persistently: keep your words cramped and your thoughts spacious.

To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.

A woman always hates the one who loves her and loves the one who hates her.

What thieves get away with, they beat the thieves for.

How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.

A bad friend is like a shadow: run on a sunny day and you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look and you won’t find him.

The powerful always have the powerless to blame.

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

A friend is one soul living in two things.

Eagles sometimes descend lower than chickens, but chickens can never reach the clouds!

There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so vividly, like a well-spoken Russian word.

Let's not be too picky. It is better to have old used diamonds than not to have any.

When they want to make people kind and wise, tolerant and noble, they inevitably come to the desire to kill them all. Robespierre believed in virtue: he created the Terror. Marat believed in justice: he demanded two hundred thousand heads.

There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thoughts of European languages.

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! It is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

When a woman gives herself, she imagines that she has given for eternity, and the man thinks that he has received a minute of pleasure.

Life is a struggle for immortality...

The future is not so much for Russian poetry as for the language. This is such a language that, no matter what is happening in the country, poetry will always produce something wonderful from its depths. It is the language that gives birth to poets, and not poets that give birth to language... And, having a language like Russian, we must understand: poetry is inevitable. And as long as this language exists, something wonderful will happen.

Knowing that we are going to die turns our life into a joke.

The highest morality is the sacrifice of one's personality for the benefit of the collective. The highest immorality is when the collective sacrifices the individual in favor of itself.

Verbosity - Russian language!

Life is an art, the mastery of which requires knowledge, knowledge of the goal to strive for.

The more you feel connected to your homeland, the more realistically and willingly you imagine it as a living organism.

May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - it makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!

You must judge a person before you love him, because once you have loved, you no longer judge.

Sooner or later, everything will be new, because life is beautiful.

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.

Compassion is the highest form of human existence.

This constancy and patience meant the fidelity and immutability of a woman’s heart.

Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.

Men are like dogs: those who are not kept on a leash are the most attached.

And having decided to die, he lay down in bed and fell asleep with the happiness of indifference to life.

The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this.

Opinions do not become correct just because many people agree with them.

There is nowhere to live, so you think in your head.

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.

When a good thing goes bad, it becomes especially bad.

If there is grief in the chest, you need to either sleep or eat something tasty.

Even if you don’t know whether, according to the rules of the Russian language, a comma is needed here or not, you are sure that in this place it is better to put it than not to put it.

A great civilization cannot be conquered from without until it destroys itself from within.

Gradually the person loses his shape and becomes a ball. And becoming a ball, a person loses all his desires.

New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very organs where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated.

Those who love either doubt nothing or doubt everything.

Nothing can happen worse than death, and you cannot escape death.

The Russian language is so great and powerful that any law in this language can be interpreted in your own way.

In almost one Russian language, will means both the power of overcoming and a symbol of the absence of barriers.

Something evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them. True, exceptions are possible.

No matter how stupid the words of a fool are, sometimes they are enough to confuse an intelligent person.

To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.

Clever thoughts expressed by men are always suggested to these men by women.

True nationality lies not in the description of the sundress, but in the very spirit of the people.

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.

Women's jewelry flaunts men's vanity.

Art certainly strives for good, positively or negatively: whether it shows us the beauty of the best that is in a person, or whether it laughs at the ugliness of the worst in a person.

There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.

Happiness is the only thing you can give to someone else without taking anything away from yourself.

Art is reconciliation with life.

We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps?... Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily?

Since we do not know what death is, it is illogical to be afraid of it.

Living in the world and not having anything to indicate your existence seems terrible to me.

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.

All men are the same, only their salaries are different

It is easier for a woman to kiss the devil than to call someone beautiful.

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.

Any monotonous task eventually exhausts even the most avid workaholic.

Getting married doesn't mean going to the bathhouse.

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.

The heart is a fortress that is easier to conquer than to keep.

There is a wonderful thing in the world: it is a bottle of good wine. When your soul demands another soul to tell its whole half-sad story, climb into your room and uncork it, and when you drink a glass, you will feel how all your senses will be revived.

The Russian language must become a world language. The time will come (and it is not far off)—the Russian language will begin to be studied along all meridians of the globe.

Unrequited love is also not love. This is a very strong feeling, but not love. With unrequited love, you love not the person himself, but his image...

Now children do not play, but study. They all study and study and will never begin to live.

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.

The strongest love is between a spider and a fly. True, unrequited...

Loneliness is a damned thing! This is what can destroy a person.

As is known from the story “In People,” M. Gorky, in order to understand the word, repeated it for a long time. Let's use his experience: dependent. AND WAIT FOR THE CROWN Well, the Russian language, you are still powerful!

When an animal is beaten, its eyes take on a human expression. How much a person had to suffer before he became a man.

The main thing must be talked about right away, or it will fall asleep like a wave poured with oil from a ship.

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

Love is heard in the voice before it is guessed in the look.

You have to believe the one you love - there is no higher proof of love. It is unthinkable to draw a line where premonitions end and true love begins.

Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future.

Women, as a rule, choose a nightgown for themselves much more carefully than a husband.

The mysteries of human life are great, and love is the most inaccessible of these mysteries.

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

For women, the best stimulant is words, and the main erogenous zone is the ears.

We honor everyone with zeros, and ourselves with ones.

The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible mooring of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky.

A consumer is a buyer who complains about something.

I am afraid of only one thing - to be unworthy of my torment.

Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us.

I see a beard, but I don’t see a sage. A Russian without Orthodoxy is rubbish, not a person.

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is able to perform miracles!

A woman who does not like her man's shortcomings does not love him either.

The idea of ​​immortality is life itself, living life, its final formula and the main source of truth and correct consciousness for humanity.

We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters.

The joy of completion is experienced only by those who do not bear any responsibility for the result of the work.

Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

It doesn’t matter how fast you move towards your goal, the main thing is not to stop.

The soul is healed next to children.

By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

A friend to everyone is a friend to no one.

Humanity is only a habit, the fruit of civilization. It may completely disappear.

One language should be the main basis for our general education and the education of each of us.

He who is incapable of repentance is incurable.

Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

Friendship is the golden mean between the desire to please and rudeness.

The more national we are, the more European we will be.

By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

A man in love with himself has no rivals.

Society is created by moral principles.

He could have become a great Russian poet if not for two trifles: lack of hearing and ignorance of the Russian language.

Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are.

My longing for her would have driven me to my grave and literally driven me to suicide. I'm a miserable madman! Love in this form is a disease.

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

Love is a picture of virtues within a relationship. When a priceless painting is stolen, advisers suggest not to worry and place any daub in the same frame.

I still love her, I love her very much, but I would no longer want to love her. She's not worth that kind of love.

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.

If you want to know what a woman really thinks, look at her, but don't listen.

Time is the relationship of being to non-being.

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. Nevertheless, and to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.

A woman is the most powerful being in the world, and it is up to her to guide a man where the Lord God wants to lead him.

...I am more afraid of a simple person than a complex one.

New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in those very same people. bodies where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated.

If a man begins to confess to a woman, it means that he either drank, or he needs this woman. And most often it’s both…

My name is psychologist. Not true. I am only a realist in the highest sense, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul.

To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.

Men live much better than women: firstly, they get married later, and secondly, they die earlier.

An ant knows the formula of his anthill, a bee also knows his hive, but man does not know his formula. Where, if so, does the ideal of civil order in human society come from?

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

Relationships are like air: to ruin it, you only need to fail to restrain yourself once.

Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.

By sympathizing, we move into the mental state of another person; we seem to be evicted from ourselves in order to settle in the soul of another.

The present is such that I try to live without noticing it.

Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech.

A person who takes his work to heart may not worry about it.

Insult is a common reward for good work.

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

Man is some kind of fictitious toy of God. This is what must be followed; you have to live playing.

Evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them.

There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.

Narrow-minded people usually condemn everything that goes beyond their understanding.

Revolutionary driving: you drive for an hour and stand for two.

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.

When there is no love in life, there is no life in it.

An honest person should not join any secret society, if only to avoid finding himself in bad society.

A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word.

A woman has a garden of beautiful flowers, and a man is a gardener.

Kings are no more evil than other people. The proof is that they usually offend those they do not see in order to please those they see.

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

Life is a game in which everyone thinks that he is the trump card.

An intelligent woman used to say: “I love my eldest nephew because he is smart, I love my younger nephew because he is stupid.”

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.

The most interesting thing is not what a woman tells you, but what she keeps silent about.

And we ask for a good answer at the terrible judgment of Christ. Why scary? The king could have called the judgment terrible when he intended to judge only criminals, but having chosen a day for the general judgment of his people, where everyone would have to be given a reward according to their deeds, reward for the good, and execution for the evil, would he have called such a judgment terrible? Unless he reigned over only robbers.

Rich, sonorous, lively, distinguished by the flexibility of stress and infinitely varied in onomatopoeia, capable of conveying the finest shades, endowed, like Greek, with almost limitless creative thought, the Russian language seems created for poetry.

And the chicken has wings like an eagle, but what of that?

Love is our shrine!

The way we say today is how we will live tomorrow.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a single day in your life.

Breaking is more romantic than saving.

Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.

The more brilliant your plan, the fewer people will agree with it.

We must not forget the old rule: whoever wants others to treat him with respect must first of all respect himself.

We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters.

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious shine.

Content

• 1 Statements of Russians 1.1 Alexander III the Peacemaker
• 1.2 Nikolay Berdyaev
• 1.3 Nikolai Gogol
• 1.4 Anton Denikin
• 1.5 Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1.6 Catherine II the Great
• 1.7 Nikolai Krabbe
• 1.8 Mikhail Lomonosov
• 1.9 Fyodor Tyutchev
• 1.10 Nikolay Karamzin
• 1.11 Peter I the Great
• 1.12 Vladimir Putin
• 1.13 Alexander Pushkin
• 1.14 Dmitry Mendeleev
• 1.15 Nicholas I
• 1.16 Konstantin Simonov
• 1.17 Lev Gumilyov
• 1.18 Pyotr Stolypin
• 1.19 Alexander Suvorov
• 1.20 Konstantin Rokossovsky
• 1.21 Ivan Turgenev
• 1.22 Fedor Ushakov
• 1.23 John of Kronstadt
• 1.24 Pyotr Chaadaev
• 1.25 Boris Chicherin
• 1.26 Nikolai Zinoviev
• 1.27 Sergey Dovlatov
• 1.28 Yaroslav I the Wise
• 1.29 Nicholas II the Passion-Bearer
• 1.30 Ivan Ilyin
• 1.31 John III the Great
• 1.32 Ivan Kireyevsky
• 1.33 Vasily Shukshin
• 1.34 Georgy Sviridov
• 1.35 Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Statements by foreigners

Otto von Bismarck

Reich Chancellor of the German Empire, formerly Minister-President of Prussia and Chancellor of the North German Confederation, who played a key role in the unification of Germany (1815–1898).

Carl von Clausewitz

Major General of the Prussian army, world famous military theorist (1780-1831).

Russia is the only country that currently has a future.
F. Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

World famous European[2] thinker (1844-1900).

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States (1858–1919).

Paul Fleming

Great German poet of the Baroque era (1609–1640)

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So, this means this is a country that is still full of honor and truth?
P. Fleming

Walter Schubart

Famous German cultural scientist (1897-1942).

Jose Manuel Barroso

President of the European Commission.

Richard Chancellor

English ambassador at the court of Tsar John IV the Terrible (1521-1556).

Bernard Montgomery

British field marshal (1887-1976).

Mark Twain

American writer (1835-1910).

Nikolai Serbsky

Church writer, philosopher, bishop (1880-1956).

Mickey Rourke

American film actor and screenwriter, professional boxer. Winner of the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards. Oscar nominee.