Anton Chekhov: You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delight — Anton Chekhov

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace. — Anton Chekhov
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He nee — Anton Chekhov
A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. — Anton Chekhov
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especi — Anton Chekhov
When the discourse touched on the matter of love, Pen was broken and paper torn; — Rumi
'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal — Oscar Wilde
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov
I'll turn over a new leaf. — Miguel de Cervantes
'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not div — Thomas Campbell
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The u — Immanuel Kant
The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name. — Lord Byron
Henry VI, Part 3 — William Shakespeare