Author of quotes: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Page 3

Strange people, by God! he thought. - Why do they put a learned color on their faces? They tear their neighbors at exorbitant prices, they sell ointments for hair growth, and looking at their faces, you might think that they really are the priests of science. They write in Latin, they speak German ... They make something of a medieval person ... In a healthy state, you don’t notice these dry, callous physiognomies, but when you get sick, like I do now, you’ll be horrified that the holy cause has got into the hands of this insensitive ironing figure...

The geniuses of all ages and countries speak different languages, but the same flame burns in all of them.

There is nothing more boring than drinking good wine and not seeing anyone.

Wine excites desires, and desires are the first enemies of the prisoner.

The state is not God. It has no right to take away what it cannot give back if it wants to.

In my opinion, the death penalty is more moral and humane than imprisonment. Execution kills immediately, but life imprisonment is slow. What executioner is more humane? Is it the one that kills you in a few minutes, or the one that sucks the life out of you for many years?

So

On the stage, people have lunch, drink tea, and at this time their destinies are crumbling.

It's boring without you. Tomorrow I will lie down on purpose at nine o'clock in the evening, so as not to celebrate the New Year. You are not there, which means that there is nothing and I do not need anything.

Yes, I could! Could! But I am a rotten rag, rubbish, sour, I am Moscow Hamlet.

Meanwhile, time goes on and on, I grow old, weaken; look, not today tomorrow I'll get sick with influenza and die, and they'll drag me to Vagankovo; friends will remember me for three days, and then they will forget, and my name will cease to be even a sound.

Someone else's success is shame, humiliation, a thorn in my heart for me.

My soul turns into a piece of lead, I hate the one who was successful with all my being.

There is no dispute in which I do not intervene. True, I do not know how to speak, but I can smile ironically, shrug my shoulders, exclaim.