231 Quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov

The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.

Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.

Tea is not vodka, it is impossible to drink it a lot

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... Čovječanstvo voli novac, ma od čega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ćeš... I milosrđe ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obični ljudi... Općenito uzevši, podsjećaju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...'You never can tell...' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

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