"For now we are either horrified or pretend that we are horrified, while, on the contrary, relishing the spectacle," (695).

"I am a subordinate man, [...] If the authorities see fit to deride me, then I must endure it," (666).

Fetyukovich

"...an idea had been formed of him as a conqueror of women's hearts," (657).

"But should not we, too, some day begin to live soberly and thoughtfully; should not we, too, understand at least something of our social duty," (695).

"Oh, he has a deep, deep conscience! He tormented himself with his conscience!" (690).

"God be with him, sir. Ilyushechka told me not to. God will repay me there, sir," (669)

Ippolit Kirillovich

"Special mention was made of her pride (she paid visits to almost no one in our town), her 'aristocratic connections,'" (657).

"...he ought not to have been looking to the left, at the ladies, but, on the contrary, precisely to the right...by looking straight in front of him, he thereby precisely proved his perfectly normal state of mind," (673).

"Everyone wants his father dead. Viper devours viper...If there was no parricide, they'd all get angry," (686).

"It was a joke...I don't see why it should interest you. I took it for a joke...so as to give it back later..." (668)

Vasiliev

"...he had been a capable fellow but stupid and oppressed by illness," (664).

"...the direct force of truth still lives in his young heart, that the feeling of family loyalty has not yet been stifled in him by unbelief and moral cynicism," (697).

"...I was always convinced that at the fatal moment some higher feeling would always save him," (676).

"It was that man-stealer who ruined him, that's what; she alone is the cause of everything, that's what," (683).

Ignatievna

"...such extremely frank testimony, such sacrifice, such self-immolation was almost impossible to expect," (681).

"The whole spiritual side has been scrapped, but there is an extraordinary thirst for life. In the end he sees nothing in life apart from sensual pleasure," (696).

"...the mental abnormality of the defendant is self-evident," (671).

"You are a grateful young man, for all your life you have remembered that pound of nuts I brought you in your childhood," (675).

Lyagavy

"...a proud character...at the first suspicion of contempt from someone, at once flares up with wrath and desire to strike back," (682).

"She also came into the courtroom dressed in all black, with her beautiful black shawl over her shoulders," (682).