Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Even in Siberia there is happiness.
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
I'm in mourning for my life.
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.
The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.