Quote

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1821
Born: January 1
Died: 1881
Died: January 1
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Dostoievski
Fyodor Dostoievski
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoievski
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Right
Would
Viper
Vipers
Serve

More quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Image
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Image
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.
Fyodor Dostoevsky