Anton Chekhov Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Love You, Heart

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

• By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mistake, Imagine, Virtue

  "Ariadne". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

• Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

  Anton Chekhov

  Catholic, Merit, Virtue

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, November 18, 1891.

• There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

  Anton Chekhov

  Vapid, Mediocrity, Useless

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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