Author: Anton Chekhov

Quotes

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

- Anton Chekhov

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

- Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

- Anton Chekhov

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

- Anton Chekhov

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

- Anton Chekhov

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

- 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.

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

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.

- Anton Chekhov

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

- Anton Chekhov

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