A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say:… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache… If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day... — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books. — 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
