While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and… — 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
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. — 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
