Quotes by : Vladimir Nabokov

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.

And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply....

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic....

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.....

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I....

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading