Fathers and Sons Quotes

"Without principles taken as you say on trust one cannot move an inch or draw a single breath." (5.60)

Piotr, being one of the modern 'up-to-date' servants, had not approached to kiss the young master's hand but merely bowed to him from a distance, now vanished again through the gateway. (2.14)

"A nihilist is a person who does not take any principle for granted, however much that principle may be revered." (5.57)

"An archaic survival! But your father's nice. He wastes his time reading poetry, and knows precious little about farming, but his heart's in the right place." (4.30)

"And how is Uncle Pavel? Is he keeping well?" inquired Arkady, anxious, in spite of the genuine almost childish delight filling his heart, to switch the conversation as soon as possible from an emo...

The sun blazed down. A smell of warm rye bread was wafted out of the dark passage of the inn. Our Nikolai Petrovich is lost in reverie. "My son... a graduate... my boy Arkady..." Again and again th...

Pavel Petrovich had not undressed but merely changed his patent-leather shoes for a pair of heel-less red Chinese slippers. In his hand he held the last number of Galignani but he was not reading;...

"Of course I ought to be ashamed," Nikolai Petrovich replied, turning redder and redder. "Stop, papa, stop, I implore you!" Arkady exclaimed, smiling affectionately. "What a thing to apologize for!...

"Natural science is his main subject. But he knows everything. Next year he wants to take a degree in medicine." (3.15)

"Go on, into the water with you, my young philosophers!" (5.11)