Quote

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

Anton Chekhov

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
Author
Dramaturge
Journalist
Novelist
Physician
Playwright
Prosaist
Satirist
Writer
Tahanroh
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
Chekhov
Literature
Eye
Woman
Beautiful
Always
People
Lovely
Hair
Eyes

More quotes by Anton Chekhov

Image
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.
Anton Chekhov
Image
In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
Anton Chekhov
Image
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
Anton Chekhov
Image
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
Anton Chekhov
Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
Anton Chekhov
Image
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Anton Chekhov
Image
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
Anton Chekhov
Image
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
Anton Chekhov
Image
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
Anton Chekhov