Anton Chekhov Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  Anton Chekhov

  Maids, Faces, Exhausted

  Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

• The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Education, Men, Culture

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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