The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOVDoctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVA man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOVBe sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOV