Anton Chekhov Quotes

"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
-Anton Chekhov in Understanding quotes.

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
-Anton Chekhov in Peace quotes.

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
-Anton Chekhov

"People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them."
-Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes."
-Anton Chekhov in Belief quotes.

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

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

"Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things."
-Anton Chekhov

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."
-Anton Chekhov

"The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything."
-Anton Chekhov

"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
-Anton Chekhov

"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."
-Anton Chekhov

"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."
-Anton Chekhov

"If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?"
-Anton Chekhov

"Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out."
-Anton Chekhov

"Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason."
-Anton Chekhov