One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — 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
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
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — 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
