- 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.
- Petya: May I go out, please?
- Count Rostov: Who asked you to come in?
- Petya: Nobody.
- Count Rostov: Then why are you asking to go out?
- Prince Vasili Kuragin: Do you think it's seemly playing cards in the house of a dying man?
- Anatole Kuragin: I don't see the connection, Father.
- Prince Vasili Kuragin: I brought you here to pay your respects to Count Bezukhov, not idle away your time and my money gambling.
- Anatole Kuragin: How can I pay my respects if he's unconscious?
- Pierre Bezukhov: If you want me to ruin you, I will. I'll take every ruble you've got.
- Anatole Kuragin: It's my father you'll ruin, not me. It's his money I play with.
- Pierre Bezukhov: What are you here for?
- Anatole Kuragin: Now what do you think I'm here for?
- Pierre Bezukhov: I don't know.
- Anatole Kuragin: Well, my father covers every possibility. I'm here in case your father doesn't die. Well, how'd it look, Pierre, if by some miracle your father recovered and I wasn't here paying my respects, eh? Well, how'd it look? It would look callous, wouldn't it?
- Pierre Bezukhov: Yes.
- Anatole Kuragin: Well, of course it would, you idiot. It would look as if I didn't care whether he lived or died. And then, if he had left me something, he might change his mind and leave me out altogether.
- 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.
- Princess Drubetskoya: And what do the doctors say?
- Prince Vasili Kuragin: They're with him now.
- Princess Drubetskoya: I want to thank him personally for all his kindness in the past to me and to Boris. Boris is his godson, you know. I shall wait awhile. Perhaps he'll rally.
- Prince Vasili Kuragin: Don't you think such an interview would be something of an ordeal?
- Princess Drubetskoya: I am used to suffering, Prince.