Quote

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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
Silence
Simplicity
Answers
Relation
Funny
Integrity
Human
Laugh
Interactions
Humans
Angry
Rude
Heart
Answer
Interaction
Something
Asked
Sincerity
Laughing
Relations

More quotes by Anton Chekhov

Image
It's not a matter of old or new forms a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
Anton Chekhov
Image
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
Anton Chekhov
Image
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Anton Chekhov
Image
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
Image
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
Anton Chekhov
Image
..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
Anton Chekhov
Image
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
Image
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Anton Chekhov
Image
And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!
Anton Chekhov
Image
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
Anton Chekhov
Image
You look boldly ahead isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
Anton Chekhov
Image
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
Anton Chekhov
Image
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
Anton Chekhov
Image
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
Image
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
Anton Chekhov
Image
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
Anton Chekhov