Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on… — 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
Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many… — 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
