942 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

I am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought...

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic’s bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

A red backless slipper slowly slid off her foot... and Franz, bending down after it, plunged softly into dark slumber.

All dreams are anagrams of diurnal reality.

By this time I was in a state of excitement bordering on insanity; but I also had the cunning of the insane.

I don’t think in any language. I think in images.

Both Erica and Liza Wind were morbidly concerned with heredity, and instead of delighting in Victor’s artistic genius, they used to worry gloomily about its genetic cause.

I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such.