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
I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.