A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Shabelsky: Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who… — 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
“Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — 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
