Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
Anton Chekhov
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Idea
Ideas
Nothing
Done
Men
Fixed
Gets
More quotes by Anton Chekhov
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.
Anton Chekhov
I don't like being successful the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.
Anton Chekhov
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Anton Chekhov
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
Anton Chekhov
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Chekhov
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
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
Anton Chekhov
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
Anton Chekhov
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
Anton Chekhov
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
Anton Chekhov
My holy of holies is the human body.
Anton Chekhov
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
Anton Chekhov
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
Anton Chekhov
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Anton Chekhov
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
Anton Chekhov
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
Anton Chekhov
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
