War & Peace (TV Series)

Part One: Name Day (1972)

Faith Brook: Countess Rostova

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• Countess Rostova : Strange, isn't it? As one gets older, one wants to see fewer and fewer people. Just old friends.

  Princess Drubetskoya : My dear, there are not many of us left. That's why I value your friendship so.

  Countess Rostova : You're right in that. Fewer and fewer old friends. They seem to drop by the wayside as one journeys through life.

• Countess Rostova : Life treats all of us very differently.

  Princess Drubetskoya : How true that is. For some people life seems so easy. For others it's just struggle, struggle, struggle all day.

  Countess Rostova : Well, my life hasn't been easy, as you know. No bed of roses. Wealth has its problems, my dear. In some ways no less than poverty. Can be a worry and a strain.

  Princess Drubetskoya : Oh, don't I know. If you haven't got it, you wonder where it's coming from, but if you have, you wonder where it's going.

• Countess Rostova : It can't be healthy for a young girl to be constantly in the company of older women.