Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. – Anton Chekhov
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does. – Anton Chekhov
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. – Anton Chekhov
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. – Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. – Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. – Anton Chekhov
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. – Anton Chekhov
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. – Anton Chekhov
The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. – Anton Chekhov
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. – Anton Chekhov
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. – Anton Chekhov