A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor… — 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
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. — 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
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other… — 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
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives… — 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
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be… — 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
