Men Quotes by Anton Chekhov

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

— Anton Chekhov

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

— Anton Chekhov

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

— Anton Chekhov

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

— Anton Chekhov

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

— Anton Chekhov

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

— Anton Chekhov

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

— Anton Chekhov

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

— Anton Chekhov

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is…

— Anton Chekhov

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then…

— Anton Chekhov

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

— Anton Chekhov

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

— Anton Chekhov

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

— Anton Chekhov

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just…

— Anton Chekhov

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find…

— Anton Chekhov

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he…

— Anton Chekhov

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

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other…

— Anton Chekhov

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

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl…

— Anton Chekhov

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up…It's going to blow…

— Anton Chekhov

An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.…

— Anton Chekhov

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in…

— Anton Chekhov

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by…

— Anton Chekhov

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

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this…

— Anton Chekhov

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the…

— Anton Chekhov

Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers…

— Anton Chekhov

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

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

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

— Anton Chekhov

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and…

— Anton Chekhov

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant…

— Anton Chekhov

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter…

— Anton Chekhov

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I…

— Anton Chekhov

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

— Anton Chekhov

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

— Anton Chekhov

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in…

— Anton Chekhov

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated…

— Anton Chekhov

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of…

— Anton Chekhov