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. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. Anton Chekhov sister brother father When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make. Anton Chekhov grief kindness character 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. Anton Chekhov guy philosophy hands Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die. Anton Chekhov forever life death Only one who loves can remember so well. Anton Chekhov wells remember When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' Anton Chekhov eye hair beautiful ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing. Anton Chekhov mirages live-by real It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world. Anton Chekhov pieces feelings world Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. Anton Chekhov maturity men thinking The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. Anton Chekhov actors artist teacher My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves. Anton Chekhov body inspiration two The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing. Anton Chekhov charity soul desire Women can't forgive failure. Anton Chekhov cant-forgive forgiving If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there. Anton Chekhov rifles wall writing I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious. Anton Chekhov marriage curiosity people A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter. Anton Chekhov daughter eye men I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges. Anton Chekhov ocean men life Brevity - the sister of talent. Anton Chekhov brevity talent human-nature To advise is not to compel. Anton Chekhov advise All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. Anton Chekhov scary heart thinking
