http://www.monologuesearch.com/authors/Anton_Chekhov/rss This channel provides quotes from monologues by Anton Chekhov added by the members of MonologueSearch.com. en-us http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/10 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/10 "When I woke up this morning, I got up and washed, and then suddenly everything in the world became clear to me. I know now the way people must live. Dear Ivan Romanych, I know everything. A person must toil, work by the sweat of his face, no matter who…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/85 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/85 "Let us discuss this bright and beautiful life of mine. Violent obsessions sometimes lay hold of a man: he may, for instance, think day and night of nothing but the moon. I have such a moon. Day and night I am held in the grip of one besetting thought, to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/86 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/86 "Well, well, this is funny! Here's a good joke! I fell asleep in my dressing-room when the play was over, and there I was calmly snoring after everybody else had left the theatre. Ah! I'm a foolish old man, a poor old dodderer! I have been drinking again, and so…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/87 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/87 "Yes, ten years have made me another man. And why? Because I am overworked. Nurse, I am on my feet from dawn till dusk. I know no rest; at night I tremble under my blanket for fear of being dragged out to visit someone who is sick; I have toiled…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/92 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/92 "It's locked. They're gone. They've forgotten me.... Doesn't matter.... Rest here.... I know Leonid Andreyevich didn't wear his fur coat.... He's gone out in his light-weight coat.... And I wasn't watching -- ach, he's such a child. So life has gone by.... And it seems I still haven't lived. Lie…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/352 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/352 "Are you alone here? Today I did something contemptible. I killed this sea gull, and now I place it at your feet. Soon, in the same way, I shall kill myself. You've changed toward me, your eyes are cold, my presence even embarrasses you. It all started on that very…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1028 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1028 "I did. I bought it. Wait a bit; don't hurry me; my head's in a whirl; I can't speak... When we got to the sale, Deriganof was there already. Leonid Andreyitch had only fifteen hundred pounds, and Deriganof bid three thousand more than the mortgage right away. When I saw…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1143 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1143 "I have loved him for six years now, I love him more than my own mother. Every minute I seem to hear him, feel the pressure of his hand; I watch the door, waiting, thinking he will come in at any moment. And you see, I keep coming to you…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1941 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1941 "NINA: Men and lions, eagles and partridges, antlered deer, geese, spiders, the silent fishes dwelling in the water, star-fish and tiny creatures invisible to the eye--these and every form of life, ay, every form of life, have ended their melancholy round and become extinct. . . . Thousands of centuries…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1995 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1995 "All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves, starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye--in one word, life--all, all life, completing the dreary round imposed upon it, has died out at last. A thousand years have passed…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2138 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2138 "She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not, she loves me, she loves me not. You see, my mother does not love me. Why, of course! She wants a life to live, to fall in love, to wear brightly colored blouses, and here I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2179 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2179 "Don't go away, I beg you. When you're around it's more cheerful... I keep waiting for something, just as if the house were going to fall down on us. Oh, my sins, my sins... I've always scattered money to the winds, impulsively, like someone out of her mind, and I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2857 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2857 "When I first went on the stage, in the first glow of passionate youth, I remember a woman loved me for my acting. She was beautiful, graceful as a poplar, young, innocent, pure, and radiant as a summer dawn. Her smile could charm away the darkest night. I remember, I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3139 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3139 "The Swan Song by anton chekov SVIETLOVIDOFF: When I first went on the stage, in the first glow of passionate youth, I remember a woman loved me for my acting. She was beautiful, graceful as a poplar, young, innocent, pure, and radiant as a summer dawn. Her smile could charm…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3304 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3304 "TRIGORIN: Hm! . . . You talk of fame and happiness, of some brilliant interesting life; but for me all these pretty words, if I may say so, are just like marmalade, which I never eat. You are very young and very kind, but I don't know what is so…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3588 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3588 "I'm telling you all this because you're a writer. You may be able to use it. I tell you honestly: if he had seriously wounded himself, I would not have gone on living another minute. But I have courage, all the same. I've made up my mind to tear this…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3616 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3616 "SASHA There are a great many things a man cannot understand. Any girl would rather love an unfortunate man than a fortunate one, because every girl would like to do something by loving. A man has his work to do, and so for him love is kept in the background…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3711 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3711 "Why on earth isn't Leonid back? I'd just like to know if the estate's sold or not. I can't believe this terrible thing has gone as far as it has - it's so incredible I don't even know what to think anymore, somehow I feel lost... I could scream right…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3776 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3776 "Can't you think of something new? Your joke's stale and flat. We'll probably never see each other again, so allow me to give you a piece of advice at parting: don't wave your hands about! Get out of the habit. And another thing: building bungalows, figuring that summer residents will…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/550 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/550 "SMIRNOV: I don't understand how to behave in the company of ladies. Madam, in the course of my life I have seen more women than you have sparrows. Three times have I fought duels for women, twelve I jilted and nine jilted me. There was a time when I played…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1394 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1394 "I suppose I am dreadfully guilty, but my thoughts are muddled, my soul is in the grip of a kind of apathy, and I am no longer able to understand myself. I don't understand myself or other people... I should like to tell you everything from the beginning, but it's…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/602 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/602 "I am beginning to think that fate has cheated me, Doctor. There are a great many people, perhaps no better than I, who are happy without having had to pay for their happiness. But I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! ... And so dearly! Why should I have had…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1776 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1776 "I am beginning to think that fate has cheated me, Doctor. There are a great many people, perhaps no better than I, who are happy without having had to pay for their happiness. But I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! ... And so dearly! Why should I have had…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/851 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/851 "My dear friend, I am beginning to think that fate has cheated me. There are a great many people, perhaps no better than I, who are happy without having had to pay for their happiness. But I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! ... And so dearly! Why should I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1520 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1520 "LVOV (alone): I could curse myself! ... Again I missed the opportunity of talking to him as I ought to.... I cannot talk to him calmly! I have only to open my mouth and say one word, and something here [points to his breast] begins to suffocate me, to turn…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/121 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/121 "NYUKHIN: (He enters the stage with great dignity, wearing long side whiskers and worn-out flock coat. He bows majestically to his audience, adjusts his waistcoat, and speaks.) Ladies and ... so to speak... gentlemen. It was suggested to my wife that I give a public ledture here for charity. Well…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1653 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1653 "I don't understand how to behave in the company of ladies. Madam, in the course of my life I have seen more women than you have sparrows. Three times have I fought duels for women, twelve I jilted and nine jilted me. There was a time when I played the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2564 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2564 "I'll shoot her like a sitting duck! I'm not a schoolboy anymore, I'm no sentimental puppy—I don't care if she is the weaker sex. I'll shoot her—that's real equality; that'll emancipate her! Equality of the sexes at last! But what a woman! “Goddamn you! You have no idea what a…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/895 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/895 "I don't understand how to behave in the company of ladies. Madam, in the course of my life I have seen more women than you have sparrows. Three times have I fought duels for women, twelve I jilted and nine jilted me. There was a time when I played the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1659 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1659 "I don't understand how to behave in the company of ladies. Madam, in the course of my life I have seen more women than you have sparrows. Three times have I fought duels for women, twelve I jilted and nine jilted me. There was a time when I played the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1689 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1689 "You smoke? Go ahead if you want to, here's some matches. Beautiful day today, isn't it? And yesterday it was raining so hard the men in the hayfields couldn't do a thing. How many stacks have your people cut so far? You know what happened to me? I got so…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1651 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1651 "Mother is bored. And jealous. She's against me and the play and performance because Nina's in it and she isn't. She already hates the play and doesn't know a thing about it. And she's mad because, even on this stage, Nina will be a hit and she won't. My mother-the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/281 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/281 "Why do you say you kiss the ground I walk on? I ought to be killed. I'm so tired, Kostya! If I could only rest... rest. I am the seagull... No, that's not it. I'm an actress! It doesn't matter. So he's here, too! It doesn't matter! He didn't believe…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/181 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/181 "Oh, what has become of my past and where is it? I used to be young, happy, clever, I used to be able to think and frame clever ideas, the present and the future seemed to me full of hope. Why do we almost before we have begun to live…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1134 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1134 "Well, I say! [Laughs] You know a great deal too much! I don't think there can really be a town so dull and stupid as to have no room for a clever, cultured person. Let us suppose even that among the hundred thousand inhabitants of this backward and crude town…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1216 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1216 "He didn't say anything to me. His soul and heart are still hidden from me; but why do I feel so happy? I said to him: You are refined, noble, you have such a gentle voice... Was it the wrong moment for just that? His voice trembles, caresses you- Here…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/477 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/477 "SONYA: What can we do? We must live out our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of days ahead of us, and through the long evenings. We shall bear patiently the burdens that fate imposes on us. We shall…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1000 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1000 "He didn't say anything....I still don't know what he thinks for feels about me, so why do I feel so happy? I told him he was sensitive, that he had a gentle voice.....I hope that was the proper thing to say......when i said that about having a younger sister, he…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/399 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/399 "What can we do? We must live out our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of days ahead of us, and through the long evenings. We shall bear patiently the burdens that fate imposes on us. We shall work…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1942 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1942 "SONYA: What can we do? We must live out our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live all through the endless procession of days ahead of us, and through the long evenings. We shall bear patiently the burdens that fate imposes on us. We shall…"