Elena > Elena's Quotes

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“...А мне ни один не радостен звон, кроме звона твоего любимого имени.
И в пролет не брошусь, и не выпью яда, и курок не смогу над виском нажать.
Надо мною, кроме твоего взгляда, не властно лезвие ни одного ножа.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky, Selected Poems

“I wanted to find out then and quickly whether I was a louse like everybody else or a man. Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling creature or whether I have the right...F”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Тварь ли я дрожащая или право имею...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Фауст:
- Ты кто?
Мефистофель:
- Часть силы той, что без числа
Творит добро, всему желая зла.
("Фауст", И. Гёте)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“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.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Он любил и страдал. Он любил деньги и страдал от их недостатка.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“- Кто, по-вашему, этот мощный старик? Это - гигант мысли, отец русской демократии и особа, приближенная к императору.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“Вы ни пьете, ни курите, девушками не увлекаетесь... Зачем Вам деньги? Вы же не умеете их тратить.”
― Илья Ильф, The Twelve Chairs

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita