Quotes by : Anton Chekhov

Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings....

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

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such....

The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak....

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.....

They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting illusion.'....

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in which....

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without....