Anton Chekhov on Beauty
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov, catalogued under beauty, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov and filed under "beauty" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #11899: "People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves."
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #171959: "Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?"
5 Quotes by Anton Chekhov on Beauty
"People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves."
"Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?"
"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."
"Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant."
"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."