Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Women can’t forgive failure.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
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






