Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — 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
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — 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
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon… — 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
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — 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
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
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
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
