Top 438 Quotes & Sayings by Anton Chekhov
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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 University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Man is what he believes.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
To advise is not to compel.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Only entropy comes easy.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
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.
Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
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