Anton Chekhov: Trending quotes

Anton Chekhov trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Anton Chekhov: 444 quotes5 likes

“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to L.A. Avilova (February 26, 1899)
Letters

“Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.”

Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“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.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov (October 13, 1888)
Letters

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

Anton Chekhov

Act IV
Uncle Vanya (1897)

“The cherry orchard is now mine!… I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even permitted in the kitchen.”

Anton Chekhov

Act III
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”

Anton Chekhov

Source: Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 18, 1891)

“An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 11, 1892)
Letters

“Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.”

Anton Chekhov

Act I
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.”

Anton Chekhov book Gusev

Gusev (1890)

“Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that “each case be individualized.” If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.”

Anton Chekhov

A Dreary Story or A Tedious Story (1889)

“I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to Alexei Pleshcheev (October 4, 1888)
Letters

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

Anton Chekhov

Letter to L.A. Avilova (April 27, 1899)
Letters

“A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”

Anton Chekhov

Love (1886)

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

Anton Chekhov book The Teacher of Literature

The Teacher of Literature (1894)

“I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don’t consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (February 25, 1895)
Letters

“People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.”

Anton Chekhov book About Love

About Love (1898)

“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 Chekhov

Ward No. 6

“Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that “all of our problems” come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 3, 1892)
Letters

“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 16, 1895)
Letters

“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”

Anton Chekhov

The Man in a Case (1898)