231 Quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov

This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!

Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

I have just been cut in half by a streetcar at Patriarch’s. Funeral Friday 3PM. Come. Berlioz.

What you say is true,’ the master observed, struck by the neatness of Koroviev’s work, ’that if there are no papers, there’s no person. I have no papers, so there’s precisely no me.

The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.

Ruin, therefore, is not caused by lavatories but it’s something that starts in people’s heads. So when these clowns start shouting “Stop the ruin!” – I laugh!′ ‘I swear to you, I find it laughable! Every one of them needs to hit himself on the back of the head and then when he has knocked all the hallucinations out of himself and gets on with sweeping out backyards – which is his real job – all this “ruin” will automatically disappear.

No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.

FOLLOW ME, READER! Who told you that there is no such thing as real, true, eternal love? Cut out his lying tongue! Follow me, reader, and only me and I will show you that love!

He’s already the devil knows where!