He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov What a delight it is to respect people! Anton Chekhov delight respect people It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books. Anton Chekhov cigar wife book The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. Anton Chekhov powerful grief philosophy You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes. Anton Chekhov eye life-is looks Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done. Anton Chekhov done men ideas One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. Anton Chekhov rifles stage thinking By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. Anton Chekhov virtue imagine mistake Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. Anton Chekhov philosophical tea conversation To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones. Anton Chekhov passion play writing The more refined one is, the more unhappy. Anton Chekhov inner-peace happiness knowledge Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse. Anton Chekhov cases differences years A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth. Anton Chekhov real sweet lying Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov judging play writing Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. Anton Chekhov first-impression judging two Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins. Anton Chekhov real writing men What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom! Anton Chekhov talking country people One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions. Anton Chekhov judging play writing Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven. Anton Chekhov tarantulas toads people The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov university incapability literature ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all. Anton Chekhov pain love-you heart
