No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

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

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

A dog's spirit dies hard.

But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita

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