ANSWER in Classic Quotes

1  She was confused, and did not know what to answer.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX

2  "Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment," I answer.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IV

3  Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: IX

4  Yes, I answer, if one had to live simply to keep out of the rain.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X

5  "In the N---- office," I answered jerkily, with my eyes on my plate.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

6  I remained angrily and contemptuously silent and would not answer him.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III

7  Everything is ready; I can answer for the champagne; it is capitally frozen.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

8  There was no answer, but I fancied I heard her footsteps, lower down on the stairs.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: X

9  "We won't dispute your right, we won't dispute your right," the others answered, laughing.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

10  You will say, perhaps, that it is not worth your trouble; but in that case I can give you the same answer.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X

11  "I arrived at five o'clock as you told me yesterday," I answered aloud, with an irritability that threatened an explosion.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV

12  You will ask why did I worry myself with such antics: answer, because it was very dull to sit with one's hands folded, and so one began cutting capers.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: V

13  Consequently we have only to discover these laws of nature, and man will no longer have to answer for his actions and life will become exceedingly easy for him.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VII

14  That sauce was made up of contradictions and sufferings, of agonising inward analysis, and all these pangs and pin-pricks gave a certain piquancy, even a significance to my dissipation--in fact, completely answered the purpose of an appetising sauce.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: II

15  If I suddenly asked him what he wanted, he would make me no answer, but continue staring at me persistently for some seconds, then, with a peculiar compression of his lips and a most significant air, deliberately turn round and deliberately go back to his room.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VIII

16  Then--this is all what you say--new economic relations will be established, all ready-made and worked out with mathematical exactitude, so that every possible question will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because every possible answer to it will be provided.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: VII

17  Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer, he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX