The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

If a lady allows you to kiss her hand, you'll want to kiss her elbow next, and then her shoulder.

At present very few work in Russia. The vast majority of the educated people that I know seek after nothing, do nothing, and are as yet incapable of work. They call themselves the "intelligentsia", but they speak rudely to the servants, they treat the peasants like animals, learn nothing, read nothing serious, do absolutely nothing, only talk about science, and know little or nothing about art.

O Lord, you have given us mighty forests, boundless fields, the widest horizons, and we who live here ought really to be giants.

A girl must never forget herself. What I hate is a girl being flighty in her behaviour.