Citater af Anton Checkov.

De lykkelige mennesker er de kedeligste og mest trættende.

En mand og en kvinde gifter sig fordi, ingen af dem ved, hvad de skal gøre med sig selv.

Hvis du frygter ensomheden, så gift dig ikke!

Jeg ved absolut intet om ballet. Det eneste jeg ved, er, at i pausen stinker ballerinaerne som heste.

Kunstværker inddeler jeg i to kategorier: dem, som jeg kan lide, og dem, som jeg ikke kan lide. Jeg kender ikke andre kriterier.

Kvinder, som berøves mandligt selskab sygner hen, mens mænd, der berøves kvindeligt selskab, kort og godt bliver enfoldige.

Læger er som advokater. Den eneste forskel er, at advokater kun udplyndrer dig, hvorimod læger både udplyndrer dig og slår dig ihjel.

Engelske citater

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

And they say wit is out of fashion.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

If you cry Forward! you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

It's a long time since I drank champagne.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.