Chekhov, Anton

"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams."

"The more refined one is, the more unhappy."

"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Notebooks

"The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected." - The Lady with the Dog