TALK in Classic Quotes

1  Zverkov was talking all the time.

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

2  Well, so I will talk about myself.

Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: I

3  You've come because I talked sentimental stuff to you then.

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

4  You must have seen wickedness in your own family, if you talk like that.

Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

5  But I will talk about that fellow, about that plague of mine, another time.

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

6  Taking no notice of anything I strode about the room, and, I believe, I talked to myself.

Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: V

7  Some sledge-drivers standing by were talking about her to some soldiers and telling them so.

Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

8  They took rank for intelligence; even at sixteen they were already talking about a snug berth.

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

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

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

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

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

11  I went on almost mechanically, for I was beginning to shiver with horror myself and had no idea how I came to be talking like this.

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

12  Once--only once--they turned towards me, just when Zverkov was talking about Shakespeare, and I suddenly gave a contemptuous laugh.

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

13  Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk.

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

14  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 Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: I

15  They talked about the excise duty; about business in the senate, about salaries, about promotions, about His Excellency, and the best means of pleasing him, and so on.

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

16  "If I were a father and had a daughter, I believe I should love my daughter more than my sons, really," I began indirectly, as though talking of something else, to distract her attention.

Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VI

17  I felt particularly bold and cheerful after nine o'clock, I even sometimes began dreaming, and rather sweetly: I, for instance, became the salvation of Liza, simply through her coming to me and my talking to her.

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