Any idiot can face a crisis, it is the day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
(Attributed)
Quotations by:
Chekhov, Anton
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
(Attributed)
Man is what he believes.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
(Attributed)
Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Note-books (1892–1904; pub. 1914) [tr. Koteliansky / Woolf (1921)]
(Source)
Variant: "Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something."
He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Notebooks
We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: “In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Notebooks
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
The Duel [Kerbalai] (1891)
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Letter (1883-03-26) to A. N. Kanaev
Widely attributed to Chekhov, with this citation, but I am unable to find a reference in various collections of Chekhov's letters.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Letter (Nov 1888)
(Source)
Alt. trans.: "You have to be a god to distinguish the successes from the failures without making a mistake."
Brevity is the sister of talent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian playwright and writer [Антон Павлович Чехов]
Letter to Alexander Chekhov (11 Apr 1889)
