Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — 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
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — 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
