Anton Chekhov Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Book, Gun

• The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ideas, Numbers, Understanding

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 12, 1892.

• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  Anton Chekhov

  Technology, Two, People

  "Lights". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1888.

• Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

  Anton Chekhov

  Travel, Language, Passports

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.S. Suvorin, November 1889.

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