Anton Chekhov Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Husband, Moon, Sky

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

• Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Drama, Wife, Mistress

  "Memories of Chekhov: Accounts of the Writer from His Family, Friends and Contemporaries". Book by Peter Sekirin, September 30, 2011.

• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

• If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Betrayed, Teeth

  "Life is Wonderful" by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

• Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Married, Forget

  "Guide for Those Wishing to Marry". Story by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

• I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Today, Speak

  "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

• Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Lying, Men

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

• It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Wife, Cigar

• I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!

  Anton Chekhov

  Daughter, Flower, Thinking

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Night, Two

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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