- Mikhail Kutuzov: We have not stopped them. Theirs is a forward momentum that cannot be stopped. They're too far from home to stop now. They can only turn back, and that they will not do.
- Marshal Benningsen: We've proved we can make them.
- Mikhail Kutuzov: You prove nothing of the kind. We have proved that we can halt them for a moment, and at what cost, and why?
- Marshal Benningsen: To defend the ancient and sacred capital of Russia.
- Mikhail Kutuzov: To defend the ancient and sacred capital of Russia. Allow me to inform Your Excellency, that phrase is without meaning.
- Countess Rostova: I trust in providence. I was never happy about your engagement to Bolkonsky.
- Natasha Rostova: Don't say that.
- Countess Rostova: No, it wasn't... I think you were quite right to break it off. Even though it was a blow to us. I see now that that was providence too. Yes, my dear, I firmly believe it. That was providence too.
- Pierre Bezukhov: Are you leaving?
- Count Rostopchin: Of course I'm leaving. You better leave too.
- Pierre Bezukhov: I've just heard your proclamation.
- Count Rostopchin: Ah. That was for the populace. I have to do something to stem the panic. Moscow's been abandoned. I had word from the army. The army. Being run by a lot of Germans and a senile old man. If I had my way, I'd fight to the death. But they won't.
- Pierre Bezukhov: Isn't it better to tell them and let them leave the city?
- Count Rostopchin: Are you mad? Or a traitor? Yes, that's something else I wanted to talk to you about.
- Pierre Bezukhov: Well, what's the point of keeping them here?
- Count Rostopchin: Well, I can't afford to have all the roads blocked with riffraff, preventing decent people from getting away.
- Count Rostopchin: Is it true your wife's leaving you?
- Pierre Bezukhov: I beg your pardon?
- Count Rostopchin: I heard it was. Clearly you know nothing about it. Well, husbands are always the last to know. Well, there it is. It's a time of disasters, Count, both public and private. I shouldn't worry about it if I were you.
- Countess Rostova: God, why should I suffer like this?
- Sonya: But it's happening to everyone, Mama.
- Countess Rostova: What do I care about it happening to everyone? Do they care about my Petya? They don't even know my Petya. Dear God, who'd be a mother? I wish I'd never had children. If I had my time again... Oh, girls, perhaps, but boys... Oh, even girls, it's trouble, trouble, even with them.
- Marshal Benningsen: With the enemy in Moscow, the heart of our country's been cut from its body.
- Mikhail Kutuzov: Has it? Has it? I say the heart of our country at this moment is not Moscow. It is the Russian army. Lose that and you lose the heart of Russia.
- Mikhail Kutuzov: The thrust of the enemy is the thrust of desperate men. They have only one goal in mind, Moscow, which they see as the end of all their troubles. So they rush towards it with the mindless momentum of an avalanche, and we cannot stop them. We are not strong enough to stop them, and we do not need to stop them.
- Sonya: Do you realize there's hardly a family left in Moscow, and we've only just begun to pack?
- Natasha Rostova: Sorry, Sonya. What shall I do?
- Sonya: Well, start packing the dinner services.
- Natasha Rostova: Well, I don't see why we have to take all this china.
- Sonya: That's what you keep saying. You ask me what we should do and I tell you, and you say you don't see why we should do it.
- Natasha Rostova: Honestly, Sonya, it's all going to get broken on the journey.
- Sonya: Not if we pack it carefully. You don't seem to understand. The things in this house are worth hundreds and thousands of rubles. We can't afford to leave them here.
- Natasha Rostova: You're right, Sonya. Of course you are. I'll go and get the china.
- Count Rostopchin: Didn't I hear your brother-in-law seduced Bolkonsky's fiancee? There's irony for you. Both killed in the same battle. What a business.
- Countess Rostova: Oh, listen, my dear. All there is in life is the family. Oh, there are friends you can turn to sometimes, but in the end, all there is is the family. If you safeguard that, you safeguard yourself. Well, this family is in trouble, my dear.
- 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.