Famous quotes containing the words ivanovich and/or tolstoy:
“Children are the flowers of life, but let them grow on someone else’s windowsill.”
—Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral, vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)