There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting, it's only they who are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — 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
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — 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
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — 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
