No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he… — 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
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — 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
