Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Two
Plain
Seems
Mets
Going
Property
Never
Seem
Life
Crazy
Anyone
Frivolous
Understand
Russian
Tell
Sold
More quotes by Anton Chekhov
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
Anton Chekhov
Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: Don't forget that I made you happy.
Anton Chekhov
My holy of holies is the human body.
Anton Chekhov
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Anton Chekhov
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
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
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country the people have no morals and the boredom!
Anton Chekhov
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that each case be individualized. If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
Anton Chekhov
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Anton Chekhov
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
Anton Chekhov
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton Chekhov
There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
Anton Chekhov
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
Anton Chekhov
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
Anton Chekhov
Only one who loves can remember so well.
Anton Chekhov
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
Anton Chekhov
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Anton Chekhov