The Crocodile and Other Tales Quotes

“Suddenly, yesterday, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a gentleman of exceptional stoutness enters the foreigner's shop in an intoxicated condition, pays his entrance money, and immediately without any warning leaps into the jaws of the crocodile, who was forced, of course, to swallow him, if only from an instinct of self-preservation, to avoid being crushed.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Crocodile and Other Tales

“A husband ought to live at home, and not in a crocodile...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Crocodile and Other Tales

“The emptier a man's head is, for instance, the less he fells the thirst to fill it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Crocodile and Other Tales