727 Quotes by Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's day to day living that wears you out.

When one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Country life has its advantages, he used to say. You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good and there are gooseberries.

MEDVEDENKO: Why do you wear black all the time?MASHA: I’m in mourning for my life, I'm unhappy.

After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

They say that in the end truth will triumph, but it's a lie.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense.