# The most famous quotes from The Master and Margarita

"Manuscripts don't burn", "Never ask for anything" and the housing problem that spoiled Muscovites: the most quoted lines from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, said by Woland, Yeshua, Koroviev and Behemoth the cat.

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- Jan 24, 2024 · Айгерим
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## Top 14

1. **Manuscripts don't burn.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland, returning the burned novel to the Master.
2. **Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland.
3. **People are people… ordinary people… only the housing problem has spoiled them…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland at the Variety Theatre show (chapter 12).
4. **A brick will never fall on anyone's head out of the blue.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland.
5. **There is only one freshness — the first, which is also the last.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland to the barman, about "second-grade fresh" sturgeon.
6. **What is it with you people — whatever one asks for, you haven't got it!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland, on being told the devil does not exist.
7. **To each will be given according to his faith.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland.
8. **He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Woland.
9. **Telling the truth is easy and pleasant.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yeshua Ha-Notsri, questioned by Pilate.
10. **There are no evil people in the world, only unhappy ones.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yeshua Ha-Notsri, questioned by Pilate.
11. **No document, no person.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Koroviev (chapter 24).
12. **I'm not misbehaving, I'm not bothering anyone, I'm fixing the primus stove.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Behemoth the cat.
13. **Never talk to strangers.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Title of the first chapter.
14. **Who told you there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world? May the liar have his vile tongue cut out!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Opening of the second part of the novel.

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