When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Anton Chekhov

More information about this quote

Topic

Grace

Author

Anton Chekhov

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Russian

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Russia Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "To Alexi Peshkov (Gorky), 3 January 1899, Yalta." A Life in Letters, translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Anton Chekhov about grace: “When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action…”
Download
A quote by Anton Chekhov about grace: “When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action…”
Download
A quote by Anton Chekhov about grace: “When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1890s

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

More information about this quote
Topic
Patriotism

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
Music in London The World
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Music in London." The World. London, 15 Nov. 1893.

Another quote originally in Russian

Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead

Buy The House of the Dead at Amazon Buy The House of the Dead at Amazon
Read The House of the Dead at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Adaptability Nature of man

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The House of the Dead
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

Another quote of the following type Definition

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

More information about this quote
Topic
Home

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Death of the Hired Man
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.