Anton Chekhov Quotes, Pride Quotes, Self Quotes

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Pride Quotes , Self Quotes

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Education Quotes , Men Quotes

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Writing Quotes

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Love Quotes , Inspirational Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Stars Quotes , Children Quotes

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Elephants Quotes

Only entropy comes easy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Easy Quotes

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Love Quotes , Writing Quotes

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Children Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wind Quotes

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Men Quotes

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Calling Quotes

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Heart Quotes

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Childhood Quotes

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Two Quotes , Laughing Quotes

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Moon Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Pain Quotes , Grief Quotes