Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOVBrevity – the sister of talent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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 -
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Only one who loves can remember so well.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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 -
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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 -
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
ANTON CHEKHOV