Anton Chekhov Quotes

Anton Chekhov(Dramatist)

 

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

 

 

 

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

 

 

 

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

 

 

 

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

 

 

 

Only entropy comes easy.

 

 

 

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

 

 

 

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

 

 

 

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

 

 

 

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

 

 

 

Man is what he believes.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

 

 

 

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

 

 

 

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

 

 

 

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

 

 

 

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

 

 

 

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

There is nothing new in art except talent.

 

 

 

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

 

 

 

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

 

 

 

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

 

 

 

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

 

 

 

To advise is not to compel.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.