Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a major Russian short story writer and playwright.

Found 22 thoughts of Anton Chekhov

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Man is what he believes.

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

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.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

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.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.