Anton Chekhov Quotes

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

Life, Crisis, Living

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

Wisdom, Happy, Whether

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

Medical, Tired, Wife

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

Medical, Same, Difference

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

Wisdom, Knowledge, Put

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov

Loneliness, Afraid, Marry

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

Lonely, Talk, Minds

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

Light, Broken, Tell

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

Hatred, Petty, Hostility

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

Husband, Wife, Give

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

Love, Friendship, Respect

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

Peace, Find, Sky

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

Nature, Time, Forward

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

Life, Happiness, Philosophy

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

Faith, May, Him

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

Forward, Cry, Direction

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

Life, Trust, Impossible

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Anton Chekhov

Democracy, Essence

There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov

Art, Nothing, Talent

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

Life, Heart, Human

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

Faith, Science, Two

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

Good, Someone, Else

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

God, Tell, Able

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

Faith, Fact, Talent

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

Happy, Everything, Times

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 29, 1860

Died: July 14, 1904

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