Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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
Praise
Accept
Fool
Accepting
Better
Praises
Perish
Fools
More quotes by Anton Chekhov
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Anton Chekhov
You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
Anton Chekhov
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
Anton Chekhov
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
Anton Chekhov
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
Anton Chekhov
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Anton Chekhov
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
Anton Chekhov
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
Anton Chekhov
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
Anton Chekhov
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
Anton Chekhov
Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
Anton Chekhov
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
Anton Chekhov
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Anton Chekhov
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.
Anton Chekhov
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
Anton Chekhov
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov
