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Famous Anton Chekhov Quotes
“A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
“A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.”
“It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.”
“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.”
“When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.”
“He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.”
“Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.”
“If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.”
“There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.”
“The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.”
“To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.”
“We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.”
“One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”