"If there is a gun hanging on the……" — Anton Chekhov

"If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last."

— Anton Chekhov

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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
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Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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