Quotes by : Alexander Pushkin

Perhaps you'd like, you gentle fellow, To hear what I'm prepared to sayOn "kinfolk" and their implications?Well,....

I was born for the peaceful life,for rural quiet:the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding,creative....

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys....

Love is for every age auspicious,But for the virginal and youngIts impulses are more propitiousLike vernal....

Whom, then, to love? Whom to believe?Who is the only one that won't betray us?Who measures all deeds,....

Ever peaceful be you slumberThough your days were few in numberOn this earth-spite took its toll-Yet....

And once more given to inaction,Empty in spirit and alone,He settled down – to the distractionOf making....

Blest who was youthful in his youth;blest who matured at the right time;who gradually the chill of lifewith....

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

He who has lived and thought can't helpdespising people in his soul;him who has felt disturbs the ghost....