The Three Sisters Quotes

Tuzenbach: I would have left a woman like that a long time ago, but he just hangs on and complains about her. (1.18)

Irina: Brother of course will be a scientist; he certainly can't go on living here. (1.10)

Masha: When Father was alive we used to have thirty or forty officers at our birthday parties—it was noisy and fun. Today there's only a man and a half and it's dull as a desert. I'm leaving. (1.43)

Tuzenbach: Our new commanding officer is coming to pay you a visit today. Colonel Vershinin.Olga: Really? We'd be delighted.Irina: Is he old? (1.13-15)

Olga: Well, that's all right, it's God's will, but sometimes I think if I'd gotten married and could stay home all day long, that would be better somehow. (Pause) I would have loved my husband. (1.12)

Olga: It's a year ago today that Father died, May fifth, on your birthday, Irina… (The clock strikes noon.) And the clock struck that morning just the same way. (1.1)

Irina: How wonderful it must be to get up at dawn and pave streets, or be a shepherd, or a schoolteacher who teaches children, or work on a railroad. (1.25)

Olga: You do look lovely today—you seem really beautiful. And Masha is beautiful too. (1.12)