Quotes By Anton Chekhov

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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

To advise is not to compel.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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.

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

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.