War & Peace (TV Series)

Escape (1972)

Rupert Davies: Count Rostov

Quotes 

• Count Rostov : I've not been very businesslike, have I?

  Countess Rostova : Why should you be? It's not your business to be businesslike.

  Count Rostov : I could sort of manage things a little better.

  Countess Rostova : No. You are what you are. That's why I love you. We're both of us children when it comes to affairs of the world.

  Count Rostov : It'll be all right when Nikolai comes home.

  Countess Rostova : Ah. Nikolai. There's my hope.

  Count Rostov : He's a good boy. Perhaps he can save us.

• Countess Rostova : They're not our problem. Do you want us to leave everything?

  Natasha Rostova : Well, I don't care about everything. I don't care about your bits of wood and china. Well... well... these are human beings! My God, Mama, one of them could be your own son. And all you can think about are your ornaments! I'm sorry, Mama. I'm sorry but... well, it isn't right.

  Countess Rostova : My dear, you arrange what is right. No, I don't understand these things.

  Count Rostov : My love, she is right. How can we leave them? Empty the carts. Leave everything here. What do we care at a time like this?

• Count Rostov : Mitenka, unload two carts. Let them travel with us. A few. What harm can it do?

  Natasha Rostova : You heard him, Mitenka. Unload three of the carts.

  Mitenka : He said two.

  Natasha Rostova : Unload three. Take my things out of one of them.