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
Love is a scandal of the personal sort.
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
My holy of holies is the human body.
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
It's a long time since I drank champagne.
He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.