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
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.