Crime and Punishment Quotes

“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:truth

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:self way right

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:fear society

“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:fear risk

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:heart pain suffering intelligence

“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:wisdom stupidity

“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:good

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:reason failure

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:education

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:man

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