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

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!

Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

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

He who never hurries is always on time.

It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.