Anton Chekhov

Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished.

Anton Chekhov

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Anton Chekhov

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Anton Chekhov

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Anton Chekhov

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.

Anton Chekhov

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.

Anton Chekhov

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Anton Chekhov

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Anton Chekhov