942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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

She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.