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
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure — 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
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
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good… — 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 a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.… — 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
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves… — 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
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — 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
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means… — 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
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. — 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 do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache… If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed… — 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
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — 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
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon… — 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
“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
