Quotes by Anton Chekhov

“When a woman isnt beautiful, people always say, You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.”

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

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

“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

“The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything”

“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”

“Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”

“People dont notice whether its winter or summer when theyre happy.”

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

“Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student? Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.”

“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected”

“An artists flair is sometimes worth a scientists brains”

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

“Only entropy comes easy.”

“An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other specialists”

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

“Reason and justice tell me theres more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.”

“Conciseness is the sister of talent”

“If you cry forward, you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.”

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cant be cured.”