Anton Chekhov
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"Anton Pavlovich Chekhov" was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a Physician/medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater.

Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters (play)/Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Man is what he believes.

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

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.