Anton Chekhov Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Lying, Taken

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

• I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Ballet, Ballerina

• The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Horse, Stupidity

• Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Double Bass, Doe

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