The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov Great Jove angry is no longer Jove. Anton Chekhov angry Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone? Anton Chekhov simple complaining men Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at. Anton Chekhov angel children firsts What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create? Anton Chekhov human-beings humans Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write. Anton Chekhov fate writing jobs Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. Anton Chekhov summer winter country A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Anton Chekhov paper should writing A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. Anton Chekhov shore engagement umpires I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities. Anton Chekhov writing running book People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. Anton Chekhov expression perfect people Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary! Anton Chekhov dreary please life-is I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense.... Anton Chekhov hunting determination two A good person will feel guilty even before a dog. Anton Chekhov good-person guilt dog Love is a scandal of the personal sort. Anton Chekhov scandal love-is love My holy of holies is the human body. Anton Chekhov pharisaism holy body It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy. Anton Chekhov easier poor money There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work! Anton Chekhov mystery purpose suffering There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. Anton Chekhov mathematics tables science In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. Anton Chekhov details eye writing At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people. Anton Chekhov responsibility happy happiness
