Quotes by : Vladimir Odoyevsky

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced....

(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone....

The soulless have no need of melancholia

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as....

At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits....

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque....

In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.