37 quotes found
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyesnever!”
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
“No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.”
“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
“Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?”
“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have t...”
“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dyi...”
“ But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth? Man governs it himself, Homeless an...”
“If youve been exiled, why dont you send me word of yourself? People do send word. Have you stopped loving me? No, for some reason I dont believe that. It means you were exiled and died Release me,...”
“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
“I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.”
“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or...”
“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.”
“And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.(- , ...”
“Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too closed off and have definitely lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all one's aff...”
“Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly”
“Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in ...”
“You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.”
“Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!”
