The most famous quotes from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
The top 3 according to 58 votes from people: Manuscripts don't burn. · Never ask for anything! Never, and above all from those more powerful than you. They will offer and give everything themselves! · A brick will never fall on anyone's head out of the blue.. (Updated Jul 26, 2024.)
"Manuscripts don't burn", "Never ask for anything" and second-grade sturgeon: lines from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita that have long become proverbial in Russian, with who says them.
Automatically translated (original in Русский). See the original
Top 15
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Manuscripts don't burn.
Said by Woland.
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Never ask for anything! Never, and above all from those more powerful than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
Said by Woland.
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A brick will never fall on anyone's head out of the blue.
Said by Woland.
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What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if all shadows disappeared from it?
Woland to Levi Matthew.
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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!
Said by Woland.
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To each will be given according to his faith.
Said by Woland.
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Love leapt out in front of us like a murderer leaping out of the ground in an alley, and struck us both at once!
Said by the Master.
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There is only one degree of freshness: the first, which is also the last. If sturgeon is of the second freshness, it means it is rotten!
Said by Woland.
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Gods, my gods! How sad the evening earth is!
The narrator.
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…ordinary people… on the whole they resemble the old ones… only the housing problem has spoiled them…
Woland on Muscovites, at the Variety show.
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Telling the truth is easy and pleasant.
Yeshua Ha-Notsri to Pilate.
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Never talk to strangers.
Title of the first chapter.
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In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman…
Opening of the second chapter, about Pontius Pilate.
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Don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilt, grapes are already growing.
Koroviev to Margarita at Satan's ball.
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Who told you there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!
The narrator.
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