"One usually dislikes a play while writing it,……" — Anton Chekhov
"One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,"
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246 Quotes by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov has 246 quotes on this site.
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you…
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every…
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
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