Quote

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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
Complexes
Complex
Cleverly
Simplicity
Unusually
Solve
Rendering
Solutions
Thereby
Questions
Simplest
Simple
Solution
Problem
Attempt

More quotes by Anton Chekhov

Image
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Do you know, Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, for how many years I shall be read? Seven. Why seven? Bunin asked. Well, Chekhov answered, seven and a half then.
Anton Chekhov
Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.
Anton Chekhov
Image
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Anton Chekhov
Image
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Anton Chekhov
Image
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
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
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
Anton Chekhov
Image
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton Chekhov
Image
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
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
What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
Anton Chekhov
Image
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
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