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
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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.
Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
It's a long time since I drank champagne.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
If you cry "Forward" you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.