The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“she was sensual, like all cold people, as a rule--and we both made a show of being united by a passionate, mutual… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“NINA Think of me sometimes. TRIGORIN I shall never forget you. I shall always remember you as I saw you that bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“. . . who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What she can't get into her narrow mind is that we're above such things as love. Our whole aim - the whole… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home. Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Sasha: Men don't understand a lot of things. Every young girl is going to be drawn more to a failure than to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When our eyes met in the compartment our spiritual fortitude deserted us both; I took her in my arms, she pressed her… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I love him, love him. He's a millstone round my neck - he'll take me to the bottom with him. But I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
