All Anton Chekhov Quotes
- If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. Act
- When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… Background
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… Adjectives
- I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… Advice
- There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. Behind
- You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the… Approach
- To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must… Abandon
- In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… Ball
- If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall. Anything Long
- When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. Answer
- If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put… Act
- You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know. Ask
- The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal… Afraid
- I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature… Besides
- All saints have past and all sinners have a future. All
- People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. Beautiful
- My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about… Alone
- The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. Better
- To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Bad
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. Alone
- Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary! Bad
- One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean… Go
- One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. Firing
- Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. Better
- Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals. Air