Anton Chekhov Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov Famous Quotes & Sayings
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And here I, her own father, here I took thirty copecks of that money for a drink! And I am drinking it! And I have already drunk it!
You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
my whole life is nothing else than a daily effort to deceive myself and other people, and to avoid noticing it;
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
And the man who seeks salvation in change of place like a migrating bird would find nothing anywhere, for all the world is alike to him.
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
(The Mill)
(The Mill)
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.
I believe that nothing passes without a trace and that each of our smallest steps has significance for the present and the future.
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
If life has any meaning or purpose, you won't find it in happiness, but in something more rational, in something greater.
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous ... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive.
there--hang analysis! Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand ... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Your insincerity is natural and in the order of things. If people agreed together and suddenly became sincere,
And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms
You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist.
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
Shabelsky: Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill you too ...