My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated… — 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
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image
