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 CHEKHOVWhat a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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 -
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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 -
Man is what he believes.
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