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Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 3

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Spring, Heart, Snow

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Purpose, Aim, Wiser

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Friendship, Sex, Bad Friend

'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 2

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

Beautiful, Believe, Lost Ones

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Funny, Humor, Doctors

Ivanov I

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

Time, Voice, Joy

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Lying, People, Boredom

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

Trying, Reason, Loses

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Wife, Betrayed, Teeth

"Life is Wonderful" by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Eye, Successful, Judging

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.

Appreciation, Nature, Adversity

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

Inspirational, Motivational, Art

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1973). “Letters of Anton Chekhov”, Viking Adult

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Learning, Students, Ends

Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.264, Wordsworth Editions

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Liars, Lying, Alcoholism

Letter to A. N. Pleshcheev, October 9, 1888.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Elephants, Feelings

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

Believe, Order, Leaving

Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.2440, e-artnow

Only entropy comes easy.

Adversity, Easy, Difficulty

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Feelings, Pieces, World

Anton Chekhov (2004). “The Shooting Party”, p.236, Penguin UK

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

Government, Doe, Want

"The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Talent, Human Nature, Brevity

Letter to Alexander Chekhov, 11 Apr. 1889

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

Time, Artist, Thinking

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

People, Curious, Cease

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.321, e-artnow

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Tree, Earth, Forests

Anton Chekhov's letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Literature, Wells

Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 23, 1888.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Education, Men, Culture

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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