Medicine Quotes by Anton Chekhov

“Lvov: I need to have a candid talk with you, Nikolay Alekseyevich. Ivanov: Doctor, if we're going to have a candid talk…

— Anton Chekhov

“Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin.”

— Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

— Anton Chekhov

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

— Anton Chekhov

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

— Anton Chekhov

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov

“Shabelsky: Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill…

— Anton Chekhov

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill…

— Anton Chekhov

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means…

— Anton Chekhov

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who…

— Anton Chekhov

“Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single…

— Anton Chekhov

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful…

— Anton Chekhov

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with…

— Anton Chekhov