Quotes by : Anton Chekhov

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.....

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

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost....

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night....

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but....

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers....

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly....

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.