231 Quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

He who never hurries is always on time.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.