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Authors
Anton Chekhov
Russian
Dramatist
About the author
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Democracy
#Advertising
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Writer
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Wife
#Night
#Literature
#Medicine
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Direction
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Woman
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Practice
#Knowledge
#Value
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Time
#Will
#May
#Trees
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Life
#Happiness
#Idleness
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Difference
#Lawyers
#Doctors
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Love
#People
#Respect
#Friendship
#Hatred
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Will
#Wife
#Promise
#Moon
#Sky
#HusbDay
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Man
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#People
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Money
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, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#People
#May
#State
#Faith
#Extreme
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Fools
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#God
#Mistake
Only entropy comes easy.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#People
#Summer
#Winter
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Talk
#People
#Existence
#Lonely
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Love
#Reason
#Justice
#Humanity
#Electricity
#Chastity
#Vegetarianism
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#God
#Eye
#Successful
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Life
#People
#Trust
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Science
#Faith
#Ocean
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Day
#Living
#Crisis
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#World
#Hatred
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Life
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Art
#Science
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Peace
#Angels
#Sky
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Disease
#Remedies
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Loneliness
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Life
#Heart
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Art
#Nothing
#Talent
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Money
#Actor
#Letters
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#People
#Woman
#Eyes
#Hair
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#University
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Fear
#Sensations
#Grief
#Compassion
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Pity
#Meaning
#Sea
The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Difference
#Lawyers
#Doctors
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Difference
#Lawyers
#Doctors
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Light
#Moon
To advise is not to compel.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov,
Russian
Dramatist
#Spirit
#Faith
#Fact