Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Jealous people are the first to forgive, all women know it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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After a failure, the best-laid plans seem absurd.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There are two kinds of jealousy: that of love and that of self-love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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You have to want to the extreme to achieve the end; everything else is insignificant.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It's difficult to judge beauty: beauty is an enigma.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I love humanity, but to my surprise, the more I love humanity in general, the less affection I feel for individual people.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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How good does happiness make to man! It seems as if one would want to give his heart, his joy. And joy is contagious!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It is better to be wrong following your own path than to be right following someone else's path.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In our planet, we can only love through suffering and pain. We don't know how to love in any other way, nor do we know any other kind of love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In the world, there is nothing as difficult as frankness and nothing as easy as flattery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nature can be corrected, amended, for otherwise we would be buried under prejudices. Without that, there would not be a single great man.