No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be… — 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
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a… — 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
