Quotes from book
The Bet

Name: The Bet
Author: Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.

“If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.”

Anton Chekhov book The Bet

The Bet (1889)

“The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.”

Anton Chekhov book The Bet

The Bet (1889)

“Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?”

Anton Chekhov book The Bet

The Bet (1889)

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