Anton Chekhov quotes

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. (Anton Chekhov)
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Brevity is the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
Anton Chekhov
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov
The more refined the more unhappy.
Anton Chekhov
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
Anton Chekhov
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. (Anton Chekhov)
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Anton Chekhov
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Anton Chekhov
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekhov
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
Anton Chekhov
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
Anton Chekhov
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Anton Chekhov