You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite, write, write-till your fingers break.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
ANTON CHEKHOVLet 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 CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVThree o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
ANTON CHEKHOV