Anton Chekhov Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Work, People

  "The Princess". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

• Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Hypocrite, Eagles

• A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Guilt, Good Person

• A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Believe, Meat

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “Four Great Russian Plays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Stars, Eye

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

• When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Order, Bird

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Women, Heart

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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