Anton Chekhov Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

There is nothing new in art except talent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Art Quotes , Genius Quotes

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Love Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Vocabulary Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Mean Quotes , Doe Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Horse Quotes , Ballet Quotes

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Heart Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Events Quotes

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Dog Quotes , Stars Quotes

[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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Objectivity Quotes

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Artist Quotes , Brain Quotes

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Funny Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Learning Quotes , Students Quotes

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Death Quotes , Depressing Quotes

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Love Quotes , Religious Quotes

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Law Quotes , Interesting Quotes

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes