Quote: Pierre Bezukhov: I have sinned, Lord, but I have several excellent excuses. [Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Natasha Rostov: Nicholas.
Nicholas Rostov: What now?
Natasha Rostov: Is everybody looking at me?
Nicholas Rostov: Well, can't you see for yourself?
Natasha Rostov: Not without changing the expression on my face.
Nicholas Rostov: Natasha, you know, there's one awful thing about you.
Natasha Rostov: Tell it to me! Tell me the whole truth.
Nicholas Rostov: No girl I'll ever meet will ever be able to amuse me us much as you do.
Natasha Rostov: Shh... Don't talk like that. [Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Natasha Rostov: Nicholas.
Nicholas Rostov: Yes?
Natasha Rostov: The expression on my face.
Nicholas Rostov: What about it?
Natasha Rostov: Do I look disdainful?
Nicholas Rostov: No!
Natasha Rostov: You're impossible. I'm sure I look disdainful.
Nicholas Rostov: Well, what do you want to look disdainful for?
Natasha Rostov: Well, I thought if I looked bored and disdainful nobody would notice that this is the first ball I've ever been to. How's this? Better?
Nicholas Rostov: Oh, that's much better.
Natasha Rostov: Good. [Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Natasha Rostov: Did you notice he almost never smiles? While I was singing, I turned around suddenly and caught him looking at me and he was smiling then. And I felt - but it's almost impossible to describe - I felt as if someone had given me the most enormous, beautiful present. [Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Natasha Rostov: When I finally say I love you to any man and really mean it, it will be like a defeated general who's lost all his troops, surrendering and handing his sword to the enemy. [Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Natasha Rostov:
Nicholas.
Nicholas Rostov:
What now?
Natasha Rostov:
Is everybody looking at me?
Nicholas Rostov:
Well, can't you see for yourself?
Natasha Rostov:
Not without changing the expression on my face.
Nicholas Rostov:
Natasha, you know, there's one awful thing about you.
Natasha Rostov:
Tell it to me! Tell me the whole truth.
Nicholas Rostov:
No girl I'll ever meet will ever be able to amuse me as much as you do.
Natasha Rostov:
Shh... Don't talk like that.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Pierre Bezukhov:
You can't hate something you've never known or understood.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Gen. Kutuzov:
The only important battle is the last.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Platon Karatsev:
[explaining why a boy was executed] Where there's law, there's injustice.
[to his dog]
Platon Karatsev:
C'mon, boy, get up, get up!
[to Pierre]
Platon Karatsev:
But the maggot eats the cabbage - yet dies first.
Pierre Bezukhov:
What did you say?
Platon Karatsev:
I say things happen not as we plan them but as God judges.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Pierre Bezukhov:
There are only two things in life that are really wrong: remorse and illness. When I've recovered from them both, I'll go out in the world again.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Pierre Bezukhov:
[Before the Battle of Borodino] Such an enormous event! All our lives will be different from now on because of what is going to happen here tomorrow.
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Quote: Platon Karatsev:
[about the camp followers of Napoleon's retreating army] Russian women!
Pierre Bezukhov:
They're the lice that live on the conquerors. They have to leave or die.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Gen. Kutuzov:
[about retreating from Moscow] Russia's ancient and sacred capitol? Allow me to tell you, Your Excellency, that that question has no meaning for a Russian! Such a question cannot be put! It's senseless! The question I've asked you and these gentlemen to meet and discuss is a military one! The question is of saving Russia! Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle or, by accepting battle, lose the army as well as Moscow? Well, gentlemen, I see I am the one who has to pay for the broken crockery. Gentlemen, I've heard your views. Some of you will not agree with me, but I , by the authority entrusted to me by my sovereign and my country... order a retreat.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Gen. Kutuzov:
[to himself] Time and patience. Patience and time. The Grand Army is wounded, but is it mortally wounded? An apple should not be plucked while it's green. Patience and time.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Napoleon:
I warn you, gentlemen; I cannot sit here much longer - watching my army decay!
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Napoleon:
[Thinking to himself as he gazes through the window] Already the wild geese are flying south. What if we are trapped here through winter?
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]
Quote: Platon Karatsev:
[to the French soldier who is about to execute him during the retreat] Are you afraid too, friend?
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Quote: Dolokhov:
[about French prisoners] Take them away! You know what to do with them!
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Quote: [last lines]
Natasha Rostov:
[to Pierre] You're like this house. You suffer, you show your wounds, but you stand.
[Movie: War and Peace [1956] Movie: War and Peace [1956]]