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
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
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — 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
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — 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
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
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. — 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
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems"… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man! — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just… — 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
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