Some of my favorite lines from Love And Death, there are just to many to mention, are:
12:06am
After they make love and the whole room is a shambles
COUNTESS ALEXANDROVNA: You're the greatest lover I ever had
BORIS: Well, I practise a lot when I'm alone.
The Duel Scene with Anton Ivanovich Lebedekov and Boris
ANTON: At last, you're late, Boris Grushenko, we thought you weren't coming
BORIS: Well, I overslept
ANTON: Can you be so relaxed and confident?
BORIS: I hate to shoot anybody before my morning tea. I get a lot of bad mail from the serfs
MAN WITH GUNS: I implore both of you, come back to your senses. There's still time to call it off, with mutual consent, with no loss of honor.
BORIS: Since you put it that way, maybe I will hop back into bed.
ANTON: We'll do it now. And to the death
BORIS: Oh, I can't do anything to the death, doctor's orders. I have an ulcer condition and dying is the worst thing for it.
Boris looking at the camera before the fake Napoleon's death
BORIS: Look at him. If I don't kill him, he'll make war all through Europe. But murder? What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together on Crete for the summer. a, Socrates is a man. b, All men are mortal. c, All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. I'm not a homosexual. Once, some Cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. But, you know, some men are heterosexual, and some men are bisexual, and some don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers. My problem is that I see both sides of every issue. I'm too logical. You know, the world is not logical. If it was logical, how would Old Nehamkin be younger than Young Nehamkin? I knew there was something crazy about that when I was a kid, but every time I said something, they'd smack me. So, you know, I'm just racked with guilt and I'm consumed with remorse and stricken with suffering for the human race. And not only that, but I'm developing a herpes on my lip here and that is really killing me.
Boris with the angel of God.
BORIS: Who are you?
ANGEL: I am an angel of God
BORIS: You're kidding.
ANGEL: Fear not, Boris. You have led a just life, and at the last minute, before the execution, the emperor plans to pardon you.
BORIS: Really?
ANGEL: He will make a great personal show of his generosity, and you will have learned your lesson, but you will not be executed.
The Angel dissapears. Boris starts talking to himself, with a light shining on him.
BORIS: Then there is a God. Incredible. Moses was right. He that abideth in truth and will have frankincense and myrrh smeared on his gums in abundance, and he shall dwell in the house of the Lord for six months with an option to buy. But the wicked man shall have all kinds of problems. His tongue shall cleave to the roof of his upper palate. And he shall speak like a woman, if you watch him closely. And he shall, he shall... The wicked man shall be delivered into the hands of his enemy, whether they can pay the delivery charge or not. And...
The light dissapears on him
BORIS: Wait, I have more about the wicked man
The light returns on him.
BORIS: I shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death. In fact, now that I think of it, I shall run through the valley of the shadow of death, os you get out of the valley quicker that way. And he that hath clean hands and a pure heart is OK in my book. But he that fools around with barnyard animals has got to be watched. I thank you.
The light is off.
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