FRIEND in Classic Quotes

1  Once, indeed, I did have a friend.

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

2  Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

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

3  I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole.

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

4  In the end I could not put up with it: with years a craving for society, for friends, developed in me.

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

5  "But it's a private thing, between us friends," Ferfitchkin said crossly, as he, too, picked up his hat.

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

6  No, I'd better sit on to the end," I went on thinking; "you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away.

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

7  Once I quite made friends with them, visited their homes, played preference, drank vodka, talked of promotions.

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

8  I warn you that my friend is a compound personality and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual.

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

9  But I could not subjugate all of them; my friend was not at all like them either, he was, in fact, a rare exception.

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

10  Seeing that I was embarrassed he seriously thought that he ought to be friendly to me, and, so to speak, cheer me up.

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

11  He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret.

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

12  There you will be beaten at every turn; that is good manners there, the visitors don't know how to be friendly without beating you.

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

13  At one time I was unwilling to speak to anyone, while at other times I would not only talk, but go to the length of contemplating making friends with them.

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

14  I attempted to get on friendly terms with some of my schoolfellows; but somehow or other my intimacy with them was always strained and soon ended of itself.

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

15  We have met here, a company of friends, for a farewell dinner to a comrade and you carry on an altercation, said Trudolyubov, rudely addressing himself to me alone.

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

16  He shook hands with me in a friendly, but not over-friendly, fashion, with a sort of circumspect courtesy like that of a General, as though in giving me his hand he were warding off something.

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

17  I did not, of course, maintain friendly relations with my comrades and soon was at loggerheads with them, and in my youth and inexperience I even gave up bowing to them, as though I had cut off all relations.

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