--- title: "27 Two Quotes By Anton Chekhov" description: "27 Two quotes by Anton Chekhov. Plus more from Anton Chekhov and more Two sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/anton-chekhov-298_determination_i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-tw_1859682.jpg" --- > [I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-two-hares-even-in-the-literal/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/anton-chekhov-298_determination_i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-tw_1859682.jpg) > [Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-screws-and-valves-to-permit-us/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/anton-chekhov-298_first-impression_each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-sc_1632549.jpg) > [I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-divide-all-literary-works-into-two-categories-those-i-like-and/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/anton-chekhov-298_categories_i-divide-all-literary-works-into-two-cat_111203.jpg) > [You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/you-confuse-two-things-solving-a-problem-and-stating-a-problem/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb7/anton-chekhov-298_art_you-confuse-two-things-solving-a-problem_192563.jpg) > [When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/when-you-re-thirsty-and-it-seems-that-you-could-drink-the-entire/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/anton-chekhov-298_drink_when-you-re-thirsty-and-it-seems-that-yo_1028495.jpg) > [In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-all-my-life-i-never-met-anyone-so-frivolous-as-you-two-so-crazy/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98c/anton-chekhov-298_crazy_in-all-my-life-i-never-met-anyone-so-fri_2954634.jpg) > [When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/when-one-longs-for-a-drink-it-seems-as-though-one-could-drink-a-whole/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/anton-chekhov-298_accounts_when-one-longs-for-a-drink-it-seems-as-t_3009181.jpg) > [If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/if-there-s-a-gun-on-the-wall-in-act-one-scene-one-you-must-fire-the/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edf/anton-chekhov-298_book_if-there-s-a-gun-on-the-wall-in-act-one_2000418.jpg) > [In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-a-century-or-two-or-in-a-millennium-people-will-live-in-a-new-way/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abb/anton-chekhov-298_century_in-a-century-or-two-or-in-a-millennium-p_724089.jpg) > [One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/one-can-prove-or-refute-anything-at-all-with-words-soon-people-will/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/anton-chekhov-298_language_one-can-prove-or-refute-anything-at-all_2985230.jpg) > [My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-holy-of-holies-is-the-human-body-health-intelligence-talent/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/anton-chekhov-298_absolute-freedom_my-holy-of-holies-is-the-human-body-heal_369129.jpg) > [“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/anyone-who-says-the-artist-s-field-is-all-answers-and-no-questions/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/anton-chekhov-298_answers_anyone-who-says-the-artist-s-field-is-al_899159.jpg) > [I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-often-wonder-suppose-we-could-begin-life-over-again-knowing-what-we/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/anton-chekhov-298_daughter_i-often-wonder-suppose-we-could-begin-li_2360860.jpg) > [Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/not-only-after-two-or-three-centuries-but-in-a-million-years-life/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/anton-chekhov-298_bird_not-only-after-two-or-three-centuries-bu_390520.jpg) > [In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-two-or-three-hundred-years-life-on-earth-will-be-unimaginably/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/anton-chekhov-298_achieve_in-two-or-three-hundred-years-life-on-ea_106636.jpg) > [I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-feel-more-confident-and-more-satisfied-when-i-reflect-that-i-have/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/anton-chekhov-298_dull_i-feel-more-confident-and-more-satisfied_2402918.jpg) > [We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-good-weather-a-good-harvest-a/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/anton-chekhov-298_affair_we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-go_1581102.jpg) > [In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-displaying-the-psychology-of-your-characters-minute-particulars-3/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/anton-chekhov-298_action_in-displaying-the-psychology-of-your-cha_2977951.jpg) > [I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-will-begin-with-what-in-my-opinion-is-your-lack-of-restraint-you/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/anton-chekhov-298_communication_i-will-begin-with-what-in-my-opinion-is_2835468.jpg) > [He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/he-had-two-lives-one-open-seen-and-known-by-all-who-cared-to-know/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/anton-chekhov-298_acquaintance_he-had-two-lives-one-open-seen-and-known_1448771.jpg) > [You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/you-are-right-in-demanding-that-an-artist-approach-his-work/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb0/anton-chekhov-298_approach_you-are-right-in-demanding-that-an-artis_3162004.jpg) > [You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/you-are-right-in-demanding-that-an-artist-should-take-an-intelligent/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e66/anton-chekhov-298_art_you-are-right-in-demanding-that-an-artis_1022247.jpg) > [we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/we-all-have-too-many-wheels-screws-and-valves-to-judge-each-other-on/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca7/anton-chekhov-298_first-impression_we-all-have-too-many-wheels-screws-and-v_1929640.jpg) > [Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/those-who-come-a-hundred-or-two-hundred-years-after-us-will-despise/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/anton-chekhov-298_despise_those-who-come-a-hundred-or-two-hundred_2795600.jpg) > [An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/an-enormously-vast-field-lies-between-god-exists-and-there-is-no-god/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/anton-chekhov-298_difficulty_an-enormously-vast-field-lies-between-go_727124.jpg) > [But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/but-at-the-same-time-in-reality-what-a-difference-there-is-between/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/anton-chekhov-298_clumsy_but-at-the-same-time-in-reality-what-a-d_122641.jpg) > [ \[Ognev\] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/ognev-recalled-endless-heated-purely-russian-arguments-when-the/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12b/anton-chekhov-298_argument_ognev-recalled-endless-heated-purely-rus_2101911.jpg) ## Other authors on Two ## More by Anton Chekhov > [“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/using-vile-means-to-attain-worthy-ends-makes-the-ends-themselves-vile/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/if-ever-my-life-can-be-of-any-use-to-you-come-and-claim-it/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/there-are-still-many-more-days-of-failure-ahead-whole-seasons-of/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/but-here-was-all-the-timorousness-and-angularity-of-inexperienced/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/at-the-water-s-edge-barrels-of-pitch-blazed-like-huge-bonfires-their/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/anna-petrovna-never-talk-to-women-about-your-own-good-qualities-let/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/while-you-re-playing-cards-with-a-regular-guy-or-having-a-bite-to-eat/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/lebedev-france-has-a-clear-and-defined-policy-the-french-know-what/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-holy-of-holies-are-the-human-body-health-intelligence-talent/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/what-we-have-we-do-not-treasure-and-what-s-more-we-do-not-even-love-it/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/no-matter-how-corrupt-and-unjust-a-convict-may-be-he-loves-fairness/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/it-is-my-opinion-that-every-woman-can-be-a-writer/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/his-reading-suggested-a-man-swimming-in-the-sea-among-the-wreckage-of/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/experience-often-repeated-truly-bitter-experience-had-taught-him-long/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/why-do-you-always-wear-black-i-am-mourning-for-my-life/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/two/anton-chekhov/#itemlist", "name": "27 Two Quotes By Anton Chekhov", "numberOfItems": 27, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense…", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-two-hares-even-in-the-literal/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/anton-chekhov-298_determination_i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-tw_1859682.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/anton-chekhov-298_determination_i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-tw_1859682.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/anton-chekhov-298_determination_i-do-not-know-why-one-should-not-hunt-tw_1859682.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-screws-and-valves-to-permit-us/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/anton-chekhov-298_first-impression_each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-sc_1632549.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/anton-chekhov-298_first-impression_each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-sc_1632549.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/anton-chekhov-298_first-impression_each-of-us-is-full-of-too-many-wheels-sc_1632549.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. 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