Anton Chekhov: Quotes about people (page 2)

Anton Chekhov was Russian dramatist, author and physician. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.”

Anton Chekhov book The Princess

The Princess (1889)

People , Dogs

“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (September 29, 1886)
Letters

Life , Death , People , Feeling

“There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
Letters

Wisdom , Children , People , Literature

“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”

Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

People , Success , Happiness

“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.”

Anton Chekhov book Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

People , Personality , Happiness

“A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe…. What a terrible future!”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 18, 1888)
Letters

Life , People , Beauty , Star

“No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.”

Anton Chekhov

A Journey to Sakhalin

Love , People , Faith

“There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to V.A. Posse (February 15, 1900)
Letters

People

“Dinner at the "Continental" to commemorate the great reform [the abolition of the serfdom in 1861]. Tedious and incongruous. To dine, drink champagne, make a racket, and deliver speeches about national consciousness, the conscience of the people, freedom, and such things, while slaves in tail-coats are running round your tables, veritable serfs, and your coachmen wait outside in the street, in the bitter cold—that is lying to the Holy Ghost.”

Anton Chekhov

Diary, 9 February 1897
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

People , Lying , Drink , Freedom

“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)

Love , People , Sense , Chance

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

Anton Chekhov book About Love

About Love (1898)

People

“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)

People , World , Nature

“How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.”

Anton Chekhov

Какое наслаждение уважать людей! Когда я вижу книги, мне нет дела до того, как авторы любили, играли в карты, я вижу только их изумительные дела.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Love , People , Books

“Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”

Anton Chekhov

Alternate translation: Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Also quoted in Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations, Kevin Connolly and Margaret Martlew, 1999, p. 96
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

Love , Friendship , People