Quotes By 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.

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

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Only entropy comes easy.

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

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.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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

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

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

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

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

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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

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

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

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Man is what he believes.

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

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