When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“and that she had shown marked abilities in that direction, so that many people began to say that she was no better… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before the wedding, on St. Thomas’s Sunday?… — 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
