Anton Chekhov

Quotes

• “When I was introduced and first had to talk to her, what struck me most of all was her rare and beautiful name--Ariadne....”
• “Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid was...”
• “The chief, so to say fundamental, characteristic of the woman was an amazing duplicity. She was continually deceitful ev...”
• “It was past midnight. Nikolay Yevgrafitch knew his wife would not be home very soon, not till five o'clock at least. He ...”
• “Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can thi...”
• “The two that I feel I have most responded to, and probably because they have lived through, and been inspired by, times ...”
• “I want to believe that in his struggle with nature the genius of man has struggled with physical love too, as with an en...”
• “When Katya began whimpering, he looked severely at her from his overhanging eyebrows, frowned, and said in a heavy, deep...”
• “I walked by an old white house of two storeys with a terrace, and there suddenly opened before me a view of a courtyard,...”
• “For a man who died at 40, Anton Chekhov left an astounding legacy. Though he worked full-time as a physician - which in ...”
• “When the green garden, still wet with dew, is all sparkling in the sun and looks radiant with happiness, when there is a...”
• “I do love Chekhov dearly. I fail, however, to rationalize my feeling for him: I can easily do so in regard to the greate...”
• “Tell mother that however dogs and samovars might behave themselves, winter comes after summer, old age after youth, and ...”
• “She used the formal mode of address in speaking to Lubkov, and when she was going up to bed she said good-night to him e...”
• “Seeing me, she uttered a cry of joy, and probably, if we had not been in the park, would have thrown herself on my neck....”
• “A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life o...”
• “She was an energetic, genuine girl, with convictions, and it was interesting to listen to her, though she talked a great...”
• “At home I found deep snow and twenty degrees of frost. I'm fond of the winter; I'm fond of it because at that time, even...”
• “Olenka listened to Kukin with silent gravity, and sometimes tears came into her eyes. In the end his misfortunes touched...”
• “Later on he had met the young man himself at his mother-in-law's. And that was at the time when his wife had taken to be...”
• “I became her lover. For a month anyway I was like a madman, conscious of nothing but rapture. To hold in one's arms a yo...”
• “On the table of his wife's room under the box of stationery he found a telegram, and glanced at it casually. It was addr...”
• “The short stories of Anton Chekhov. Each is an entire entity, a small universe. Classically written, very strong, and it...”
• “Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in litera...”
• “You are reckoning on my not knowing English. No, I don't know it; but I have a dictionary. That telegram is from Riss; h...”
• “And I thought that were we now to obtain political liberty, of which we talk so much, while engaged in biting one anothe...”
• “While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and ...”
• “My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve gr...”
• “I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain...”
• “An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—tha...”
• “Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?" she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes gliste...”
• “Soon afterwards the door opened and I saw a tall, thin girl of nineteen, in a long muslin dress with a gilt belt from wh...”
• “After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate ...”
• “Kukin's funeral took place on Tuesday in Moscow, Olenka returned home on Wednesday, and as soon as she got indoors, she ...”
• “When she put him to bed, she would stay a long time making the Cross over him and murmuring a prayer; then she would go ...”
• “[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists...”
• “Byelokurov . . . began a long-winded disquisition on the malady of the age -- pessimism. He talked confidently, in a ton...”
• “It is true that, in poetizing love, we assume in those we love qualities that are lacking in them, and that is a source ...”
• “By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that ...”
• “Not everyone knows when to be silent and when to go. It not infrequently happens that even diplomatic persons of good wo...”
• “I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful w...”
• “Missattributed misquotation of "Just about anybody can face a crisis. It's that everyday living that's rough." This occu...”
• “Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!" he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in ...”
• “At home in the country I used to feel ashamed to meet the peasants when I was fishing or on a picnic party on a working ...”
• “In reality, a disgust for the animal instinct has been trained for ages in hundreds of generations; it is inherited by m...”
• “He remembered how in his father's house in the village a bird would sometimes chance to fly in from the open air into th...”
• “Between "there is a God" and "there is no God" lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great eff...”
• “In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it ...”
• “This is what I want to say to you: you are free, and can live as you like." There was a silence. She began crying quietl...”
• “Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another ...”