Quotes About Anton Chekhov

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

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

In its descriptions of a family trying to find suitable mates for three sisters, The Makioka Sisters by Junichir ? Tanizaki brings to mind the novels of Jane Austen and Anton Chekhov.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —ANTON CHEKHOV