32 Quotes About Chekhov

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Mustering the figurative glint of light on Chekhov's broken glass, he gazed into the half-remembered irises of Florence's eyes and imagined her fingers, soft and delicate, against his cheek.

If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

La șaptezeci și doi de ani, viitorul e ceea ce jelesc.Din facultate n-am uitat-o niciodată pe Mașaîn Pescărușul spunând Sunt în doliu după viața mea.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.

If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the modest doses that idealism offers, but in immoderate quantities, thousand-gallon-barrel gulps. He would taste the bitterness, but it would not make his head turn, as it does Schiller's, or Dostoevsky's, or even Socrates’, whose head, as we know, could stand any quantity of wine, but went spinning with the most commonplace lie.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.