Quotes Chekhov

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)




If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable. 
-- Anton Chekhov



If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
-- Anton Chekhov



Man is what he believes. 
-- Anton Chekhov



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. 
-- Anton Chekhov



Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason. 
-- Anton Chekhov


People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)


Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. 
--Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) 
 

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)



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. 
-- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)




We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
-- Anton Chekhov, 1897