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Anton Chekhov [1860-1904] Russian

Rank: 11
Dramatist, Playwright

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

Faith, Wisdom, Medical, Nature, Alone, Art, Communication, Friendship, God, Happiness, Knowledge, Life, Money, Peace, Respect, Science, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.	Communication	101
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.	Wisdom	102
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.		103
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.	Knowledge, Wisdom	104
Only entropy comes easy.		105
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.	Medical	106
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.	Life	107
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.	Peace	108
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.	God	109
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.		110
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.		111
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.		112
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.		113
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.	Faith, Science	114
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.		115
To advise is not to compel.	Wisdom	116
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'		117
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.		118
There is nothing new in art except talent.	Art	119
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.	Trust	120
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.	Money	121
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.	Faith	122
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.	Nature	123
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.	Medical	124
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.	Happiness	125
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.		126
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.		201
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.	Faith	202
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.	Alone	203
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.		204
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.		205
The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.		206
Man is what he believes.		207
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.		208
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.		209
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.		210
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.	Friendship, Respect	211
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.		212
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.		213
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.		214
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.	Nature	215
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.		216
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.		217
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.		218
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.		219
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.		220

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