"Perhaps a normal man is supposed to..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!”

“I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.”

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

“My family is very far from normal.”

“A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.”

“Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”

“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

“My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.”

“Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.”