Anton Chekhov's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Brevity is the sister of talent. · Everything in a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul and thoughts. · Good breeding isn't not spilling sauce on the tablecloth, but not noticing when someone else does.. (Updated Sep 3, 2024.)
Chekhov's aphorisms from his letters, notebooks, plays and stories, each with its source. Based on Russian Wikiquote.
Automatically translated (original in Русский). See the original
Top 12
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Brevity is the sister of talent.
Letter to his brother Alexander, 11 April 1889.
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Everything in a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Astrov in «Uncle Vanya», Act II.
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Good breeding isn't not spilling sauce on the tablecloth, but not noticing when someone else does.
The story «The House with the Mezzanine».
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One must be clear in mind, pure in morals and tidy in body.
Notebooks.
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University develops all abilities, including stupidity.
Notebooks.
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6
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Notebooks.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table.
Notebooks.
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It's good where we are not: we are no longer in the past, so it seems beautiful.
Notebooks.
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A man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Notebooks.
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10
Better badly acted Shakespeare than boring nothing.
Article «Hamlet at the Pushkin Theatre» (1882).
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Beware of refined language. Language should be simple and elegant.
Letter to his brother Alexander, 8 May 1889.
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12
Whoever can't win by kindness won't win by severity either.
Notebooks.
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