Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakovwas a Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 May 1891
CountryRussian Federation
vices cowardice terrible
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
kindness thinking animal
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.
wine men games
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 secretly detest everyone around them.
evil giving shadow
You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?
allies murderer fronts
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
lasts firsts degrees
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
stopping witchcraft wells
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
fearless made manage
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
most-amazing enough combination
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
visitors different impressed
Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
heat said immortal
You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
vices philosopher cowardice
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!
women difficult folks
Difficult folk, these women!
manuscripts
Manuscripts do not burn.