WORDS in Classic Quotes

1  My words of passionate exhortation.

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

2  The very word sticks in one's throat.

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

3  The cynicism, the cynicism of my words overwhelmed her.

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

4  Zverkov, without a word, examined me as though I were an insect.

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

5  not another word on that subject of such extreme interest to you.

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

6  But excuse me, I'll make the point clear, and it is not a case of playing upon words.

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

7  I swear to you, gentlemen, there is not one thing, not one word of what I have written that I really believe.

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

8  With tact and good-breeding, and, above all, entirely without superfluous words, I blamed myself for all that had happened.

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

9  Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell.

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

10  But upon my word I sometimes have had moments when if I had happened to be slapped in the face I should, perhaps, have been positively glad of it.

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

11  I don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned.

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

12  As though such a stone wall really were a consolation, and really did contain some word of conciliation, simply because it is as true as twice two makes four.

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

13  You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence.

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

14  There was not a word about the marriage, however, but the story was adorned with generals, colonels and kammer-junkers, while Zverkov almost took the lead among them.

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

15  I had the patience to sit like a fool beside these people for four hours at a stretch, listening to them without knowing what to say to them or venturing to say a word.

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

16  I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me.

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

17  In a few words, hurriedly, but with a sort of joy and pride, she explained to me that she had been to a dance somewhere in a private house, a family of "very nice people, WHO KNEW NOTHING, absolutely nothing, for she had only come here so lately and it had all happened."

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