Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Biron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
If you cant distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldnt undertake philanthropic work.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There are people whom even childrens literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
