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Quotes by Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist & short story author (1860 - 1904)

10 quotes were found

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

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Man is what he believes.

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

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

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.