Money Quotes by Anton Chekhov

14 Money quotes by Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov’s 14 brief musings on money reveal his keen eye for human fo. His concise phrasing captures the subtle ways cash shapes desire, ambition, and everyday interactions.

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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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“MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.”

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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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

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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

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Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than…

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“and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better…

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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,…

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need…

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“I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before the wedding, on St. Thomas’s Sunday?…

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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“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,…

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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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…

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“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…

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“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…

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“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…

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“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

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“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…

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“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

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“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”

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