Anton Chekhov: Quotes about personality (page 2)

Anton Chekhov was Russian dramatist, author and physician. Explore interesting quotes on personality.
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“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”

Anton Chekhov

Ionych (1898)

Guy , Science , Personality

“When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.”

Anton Chekhov

A Dreary Story or A Tedious Story (1889)

Dogs , Bird , Personality