The Prank Quotes

“I went to the Hotel of the Violet Hippopotamus and drank five glasses of good wine.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov

“The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov