Fyodor Dostoevsky

His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was more like a cupboard than a room.

But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else.

I carried on a feud with him for eighteen months over that sword. At last I got the better of him.

The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.

The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.

For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money?

Ah me, but old age is not always a blessing, my beloved one!

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Such is the force of imagination!

Honoured sir, honoured sir, you know every man ought to have at least one place where people feel for him!

I dare say it’s a devil within me. But only a little one.

I was lying when I said just now that I was a spiteful official. I was lying from spite.

I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams.

Anyone of us might fall in love with a donkey! It happened in mythological times,

Insignificant profits and sumptuous profits do not stand on the same footing.

Nor must you despise me because I am such an insignificant old fellow that a fly could break me with its wing.

Work saved them from crime; without work the convicts would have devoured one another like spiders in a glass jar.

There are natures extremely attached to home like lapdogs.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.