480 Quotes About Russia

When it comes to gay and lesbian people, the irony is they are more likely to reproduce in countries less accepting of them.

Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, ‘I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.’ Sveta

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to it; as for the red bloody meat, the steaming innards - they were being thrown onto the scrapheap. The new age needed only the hide of the Revolution - and this was being flayed off people who were still alive. Those who slipped into it spoke the language of the Revolution and mimicked it's gestures, but their brains, lungs, livers and eyes were utterly different.

Украина тяжело ранена. Россия смертельно больна.

He had arrived at the last, most hidden room of his search, he had prized open the most top-secret box, and it was empty. Tiger's secret was that he had no secret (p. 337).

Русские цари негласно полагали, что сибирским воеводам положено красть соболей, куда без этого, против жизни не попрешь.

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people fine manners.