Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
                                         Fyodor Dostoevsky 


Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
                                        Fyodor Dostoevsky 


The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky  


Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky 


One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky  


The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky  


We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky