Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Overcoat.
Politics Quotes
In the department of… But it is better not to name the department. There is nothing more irritable than all kinds of departments, regiments, courts of justice and, in a word, every branch of publ...
Dissatisfaction Quotes
It would be difficult to find another man who lived so entirely for his duties. It is saying but little to say that he served with zeal: no, he served with love. (10)
Isolation Quotes
No respect was shown him in the department. The janitor not only did not rise from his seat when he passed, but never even glanced at him, as if only a fly had flown through the reception-room. (6)
The Supernatural Quotes
Akaky Akakievich went on in a happy frame of mind: he even started to run, without knowing why, after some lady, who flew past like a flash of lightning, and whose whole body was endowed with an ex...