The Cherry Orchard

Famous quotes

• Oh, my childhood, days of my innocence! In this nursery I used to sleep; I used to look out from here into the orchard. Happiness used to wake with me every morning, and then it was just as it is now; nothing has changed.

  Act One, spoken by LubovIn context

  • Happiness
  • Youth

• If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable

  Act One, spoken by GaevIn context

  • Health

• The human race progresses, perfecting its powers. Everything that is unattainable now will some day be near at hand and comprehensible, but we must work, we must help with all our strength those who seek to know what fate will bring.

  Act Two, spoken by TrofimovIn context

  • Hope
  • Work

• You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”

  Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context

  • Character
  • Nature

• There is happiness, there it comes; it comes nearer and nearer; I hear its steps already. And if we do not see it we shall not know it, but what does that matter? Others will see it!

  Act Two, spoken by TrofimovIn context

  • Happiness
  • Hope

• I’ve bought the estate where my grandfather and my father were slaves, where they weren’t even allowed into the kitchen.

  Act Three, spoken by LopakhinIn context

  • Family
  • Success

• My dear, my gentle, beautiful orchard! My life, my youth, my happiness, good-bye! Good-bye!

  Act Four, spoken by LubovIn context

  • Happiness
  • Youth

• Life’s gone on as if I’d never lived.

  Act Four, spoken by FiersIn context

  • Life & Death

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