Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

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It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.

Mikhail Bulgakov
'Don't be afraid, Queen … don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.'

Mikhail Bulgakov
'Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...'

Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!'

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

Mikhail Bulgakov
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

Mikhail Bulgakov
Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

Mikhail Bulgakov
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

Mikhail Bulgakov
... said the not entirely suppressed old Ivan, rearing his head from inside the new one, although without much confidence.

Mikhail Bulgakov
The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.

Mikhail Bulgakov
In fact, I'm beginning to fear that this confusion will go on for a long time. And all because he writes down what I said incorrectly.

Mikhail Bulgakov
'What is all this? Damn me if I don't have you thrown out of here!' The beast just smiled and said: 'Damn you, I think you said? Very well!'

Mikhail Bulgakov
There was something uncommonly fake and uncertain in every line of these articles, depite their threatening and self-assured tone. I kept thinking... that the authors of these articles weren't saying what they wanted to say, and that that was why they were so furious.

Mikhail Bulgakov