When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVPerhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
My 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOV