Anton Chekhov Quotes
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Tchekhov. Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf, B. W. Huebsch, 1921, p. 112.
He was an ordained Catholic Priest but broke with the Church when he advocated democracy and separation of church and state.
Franklin was America’s preeminent diplomat. He was particularly resented by the British authorities because he had achieved so much fame as a “British” scientist and man of letters, had been recognized and decorated by British institutions, was wealthy and very popular in London and all over Europe. Above all, the King could not understand why Franklin was not a loyalist and resented him more than most of the American rebels.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is Lord Acton’s observation about power. See {292904}. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
