This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face — 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
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
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting. — 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
