Anton Chekhov quotes

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

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

Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov

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

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

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
- Anton Chekhov

Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
- Anton Chekhov

To advise is not to compel.
- Anton Chekhov

Only entropy comes easy.
- Anton Chekhov

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.”
- Anton Chekhov

When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.
- Anton Chekhov

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

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

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
- Anton Chekhov

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

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

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
- Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.
- Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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.
- Anton Chekhov

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