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 Quote

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

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 Quote

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

There is nothing new in art except talent.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
- Anton Chekhov Quote

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
- Anton Chekhov Quote

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.
- Anton Chekhov Quote