Anton Chekhov Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Two, Wish

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Russia, Government

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

• A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Opinion, Drink

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, May 8, 1895.

• Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Memories, Intelligent, Honor

  Anton Chekhov's letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 30, 1888.

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