People Quotes by Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

— Anton Chekhov

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

— Anton Chekhov

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

— Anton Chekhov

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

— Anton Chekhov

What a delight it is to respect people!

— Anton Chekhov

“Where is the law that says people should do as they please?”

— Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

— Anton Chekhov

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

— Anton Chekhov

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

— Anton Chekhov

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

— Anton Chekhov

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more…

— Anton Chekhov

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

— Anton Chekhov

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

— Anton Chekhov

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and…

— Anton Chekhov

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

— Anton Chekhov

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

— Anton Chekhov

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't…

— Anton Chekhov

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant…

— Anton Chekhov

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in…

— Anton Chekhov

It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need…

— Anton Chekhov

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail…

— Anton Chekhov

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll…

— Anton Chekhov

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a…

— Anton Chekhov

In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be…

— Anton Chekhov

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I…

— Anton Chekhov

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative…

— Anton Chekhov

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives…

— Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from…

— Anton Chekhov

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!…

— Anton Chekhov

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

— Anton Chekhov

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is…

— Anton Chekhov

We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…

— Anton Chekhov

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

— Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

— Anton Chekhov

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent…

— Anton Chekhov

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their…

— Anton Chekhov

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a…

— Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

— Anton Chekhov

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

— Anton Chekhov

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

— Anton Chekhov