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Him Quotes by 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 unfair,…
- The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
- When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good…
- "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
- But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his…
- If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
- Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
- The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him…
- He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like…
- He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom…
- You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden