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.
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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.
Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student? Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow.
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.