Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
ANTON CHEKHOV