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

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!

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

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

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!

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

How I hate the sight of an umbrella!

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

The public are not stupid.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

If a woman's work is never done, she should start earlier.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.