Anton Chekhov Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Russia, Suffering, Poverty

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

• It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Awkward, Needs

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

• The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

  Anton Chekhov

  Spring, Mean, Men

  Letter to L.A. Avilova, April 29, 1892.

• It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Together, Library

  Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova, December 25, 1888.

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