Top 25 Quotes by Anton Chekhov of 433

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Friendship, Respect, Hate

"The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography".

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

Meaningful, Silly, Healthy

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

Inspirational, Writing, Moon

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge, Technology, Practice

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Anton Chekhov

Beautiful, Self, People

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Anton Chekhov

Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Life, Success, Morning

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

Hard Times, People, Feelings

"Misfortune". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Anton Chekhov

Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3226, e-artnow

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

Being Yourself, Depressing, Insulting

"The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

Anton Chekhov

Men, Silence, Unhappy

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

Anton Chekhov

Dog, Believe, Meat

Anton Chekhov (2012). “Four Great Russian Plays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Anton Chekhov

Tasks, Problem, States

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov

Mean, Doe, Literature

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Anton Chekhov

People, Saint, Sin

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3781, e-artnow

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Anton Chekhov

Three, Born, Persons

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov

Inspirational, Education, Age

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

Anton Chekhov

Stars, Children, Thinking

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Anton Chekhov

Want, Life Is, Conscious

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Anton Chekhov

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3743, e-artnow

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Anton Chekhov

Compassion, Objectivity, Political

"Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2017.