There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days. Anton Chekhov learningendsstudents You will not become a saint through other people's sins. Anton Chekhov saintsinpeople We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers. Anton Chekhov nicestupidsweet 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 self-improvementfeelingslove [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. Anton Chekhov objectivitypoliticalcompassion If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter Anton Chekhov successmotivationalinspirational There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined. Anton Chekhov plentydisciplinepeople Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. Anton Chekhov canariespious Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov adversitynatureappreciation For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. Anton Chekhov lunchselfrunning Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. Anton Chekhov hard-timesfeelingspeople Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. Anton Chekhov wild-lifelandmen Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov accomplishedethicslogic When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel. Anton Chekhov drunkglassesreal The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything. Anton Chekhov boredomlyingpeople A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves. Anton Chekhov marriageknowsmen I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. Anton Chekhov elephantsfeelings When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace. Anton Chekhov personsgraceaction People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy— Anton Chekhov destinyunhappypeople There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path. Anton Chekhov stillsdisappointmentpath
