Anton Chekhov

A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Anton Chekhov

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

Anton Chekhov

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

Anton Chekhov

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.

Anton Chekhov

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Anton Chekhov

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Anton Chekhov

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Anton Chekhov

Life does not agree with philosophy: there is no happiness which is not idleness and only the useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov