Anton Chekhov Quotes About Literature

• Los conocimientos carecen de valor si no se ponen en práctica.

  Antón Chéjov

  Conocimiento, tecnología, práctica

• La medicina es mi legítima esposa y la literatura mi amante; cuando me canso de una, paso la noche con la otra.

  Antón Chéjov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

• Los médicos son iguales que los abogados; la única diferencia es que los abogados se limitan a robarte, mientras que los médicos te roban y también te matan.

  Antón Chéjov

  Divertido, Humor, Médicos

  Ivanov I

• 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.

  Antón Chéjov

  Real, Glasses, Drunk

• La Universidad saca a relucir todas las capacidades, incluida la incapacidad.

  Antón Chéjov

  Literature, Incapability, University

• All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

  Antón Chéjov

  Heart, Thinking, Scary

  "In the Cart". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

• Una buena educación no significa que no vayas a derramar salsa sobre el mantel, sino que no te darás cuenta cuando lo haga otra persona.

  Antón Chéjov

  Media, Doe, Literatura

• No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

  Antón Chéjov

  Fake People, Psychology, Doe

• There is nothing new in art except talent.

  Antón Chéjov

  Art, Genius, Literature

• Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

  Antón Chéjov

  Literature, Eccentric, Vodka

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

• Cuando una mujer no es guapa, la gente siempre dice: 'Tienes unos ojos preciosos, tienes un pelo precioso'.

  Antón Chéjov

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Uncle Vanya act 3 (1897)

• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Antón Chéjov

  Happiness, Thinking, Greed

  "Cartas de Antón Chéjov a su familia y amigos: Con reseña biográfica". Libro de Antón Chéjov, 1920.

• Estoy escribiendo una obra que probablemente no terminaré hasta finales de noviembre. La estoy escribiendo con mucho gusto, aunque peco terriblemente contra las convenciones de la escena. Es una comedia con tres partes femeninas, seis masculinas, cuatro actos, un paisaje (vista del lago), mucha charla sobre literatura, poca acción y toneladas de amor.

  Antón Chéjov

  Amor, Escritura, Lagos

• El mundo no perece por los bandidos y los incendios, sino por el odio, la hostilidad y todas esas pequeñas disputas.

  Antón Chéjov

  Fuego, Odio, Literatura

  "Tío Vania". Obra de Anton Chéjov, 1897.

• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

  Antón Chéjov

  Philosophy, Doe, Useless

• When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

  Antón Chéjov

  Ocean, Glasses, Two

• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Antón Chéjov

  Life, Science, Vegetarianism

  "The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

• When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

  Antón Chéjov

  Money, Actors, Literature

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

  Antón Chéjov

  Children, People, Literature

  Letter to M.V. Kiseleva, January 14, 1887.

• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  Antón Chéjov

  Tired, Night, Two

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

• In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

  Antón Chéjov

  Army, People, Literature

  "Cartas de Antón Chéjov a su familia y amigos: Con reseña biográfica". Libro de Antón Chéjov, 1920.

• We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

  Antón Chéjov

  Literature, Wells

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 23, 1888.

• I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

  Antón Chéjov

  Success, Ideas, Annoyed

  "Cartas de Antón Chéjov a su familia y amigos: Con reseña biográfica". Libro de Antón Chéjov, 1920.

• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Antón Chéjov

  Best Effort, Police, Criticism

  "Cartas de Antón Chéjov a su familia y amigos: Con reseña biográfica". Libro de Antón Chéjov, 1920.

• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  Antón Chéjov

  Drinking, Vocabulary, Cynical

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, December 24, 1886.

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