These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives… — 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
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. — 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
