Anton Chekhov Quotes

A fiance is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

To begin to live in the present, we must first atone for our past and be finished with it, and we can only atone for it by suffering, by extraordinary, unceasing exertion.

When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages—first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

The chief thing, my dear fellows, is to play it simply, without any theatricality: just very simply. Remember that they are all ordinary people.

Women can’t forgive failure.

Medvedenko: Why do you wear black all the time? Masha: I’m in mourning for my life.

Brevity is the sister of talent.