"Reason and justice tell me there's more love……" — Anton Chekhov
"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
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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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More Chastity Quotes
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so…
— George Chapman
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
— Erica Jong
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
— Barbara Cartland
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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