Quotes by

Anton Chekhov

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cant be cured. – Anton Chekhov

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. – Anton Chekhov

If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Dont you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions? – Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis, its the day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. – Anton Chekhov

When an actor has money he doesnt send letters, he sends telegrams. – Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis – its day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov

When youre thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean thats faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two thats science. – Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. – 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

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. – Anton Chekhov

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

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. – Anton Chekhov

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. – Anton Chekhov

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

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. – Anton Chekhov

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. – Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. – Anton Chekhov