Art Quote by Constantin S Stanislavski

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

— Anton Chekhov

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…

— Anton Chekhov

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you…

— Anton Chekhov

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

— Mary McCarthy

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

— Anton Chekhov

“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”

— F.H. Buckley

“Don’t aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.”

— F. Paul Wilson

“A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”

— Anton Chekhov

“They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.”

— Roy Rogers

“We’d be safer with musket in a safe town than with an assault rifle in a “without rule of law” world. That may not…

— Michael Mabee

“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout”

— Yuval Noah Harari