Anton Chekhov Quotes
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'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'
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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.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
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Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
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They say: 'In the long run truth will triumph;' but it is untrue.
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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.
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An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.
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When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.