Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does. — 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
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. — 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
“A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: You only qualified last year, my dear friend, you're still young and confident, but I am thirty-five. I have the right… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“As he was speaking, he kept reminding himself that he was going to a rendezvous and that not a living soul knew… — 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