Quotes by : Vladimir Nabokov

Suddenly, as Avis clung to her father’s neck and ear while, with a casual arm, the man enveloped his....

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

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent....

The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive,....

No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet....

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

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but....

Leave your incidental Dick.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.