svidrigailov Quotes

“However, I won’t dispute it, let me be a braggart, why not brag, if it hurts no one?

“But a sensible woman and a jealous woman are two very different things, and that’s where the trouble came in.”

“And however she came to risk taking such a beautiful creature into her house as a governess.”

“You are right, she doesn’t love me, but you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. There’s always a little corner which remains a secret to the world and is only known to those two.”

“Why, of course. Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most galy who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha! But why are you so keen about virtue? Have mercy on me, my good friend. I am a sinful man. Ha-ha-ha!”