Quotation by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

More Quotes From

Additional Sources

A Brief Human Anatomy "Nauka" (1976)a guest in The Bet "Nauka" (1976)Astrov in Uncle Vanya Astrov, in Uncle Vanya (1897), trans. by Elisaveta Fen (1954)a student in Lights "Nauka" (1976)

Related Subjects

self (reliance) epitaphs (8) burial (3) love (2) Jesus Christ (2) capitalism (2) time (2) church, the (2) royalty (2) speech (1)

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. The undertaker Yakov in Rothschild's Fiddle, Works, vol. 8, p. 304, "Nauka" (1976).

Cite this source Embed this quotation

Surprise me with a

The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Reference Sendori