Anton Chekhov Work Quotations

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."