Anton Chekhov Quotes

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Anton Chekhov

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : January 29, 1860

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Anton Chekhov

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Anton Chekhov

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Anton Chekhov

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Anton Chekhov

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Anton Chekhov

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Anton Chekhov

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Anton Chekhov

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Anton Chekhov

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Anton Chekhov

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

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

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Anton Chekhov