Quotes by Anton Chekhov

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

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

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, don't 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?

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Man is what he believes.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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