- Subtitle: These were the Cossacks of Holy Russia!... a people simple as children... cruel as children... fabulous lovers of laughter and food... fabulous laughers at death!
- Subtitle: "Man must fight and woman must work and over all is God"... was the simple creed of this free people.
- Maryana: Work - work - work! Is there nothing in life but work?
- Ulitka - Maryana's Mother: Work and a man! - what else could there be?
- Cossack: Our Ataman is strong and brave - yet he is cursed with a son like that! There he sits! - Lukashka, the woman man! - - the man who will not fight - !
- Lukashka: What are years? I am the same Lukashka - you are are the same Maryana - ! The woods are full of wild lilies - and I know a brook where a turtle lives!
- Prince Olenin Stieshneff: Think of it, Koozma... the Little Father has ordered me to marry one of these turnip women - - !
- Prince Olenin Stieshneff: Maryana, the time has come to tell you why I'm here... I am to take you back to Moscow as my bride... The Little Father at Moscow wishes to blend the bloods of his people... I have chosen you!
- Maryana: When I marry - - I marry a Cossack!
- Prince Olenin Stieshneff: Marry a Cossack? - work like a field beast - lose your loveliness - grow old - ?
- Maryana: Cossacks never grow old. They live - - and they die.
- Subtitle: Carpathian gypsies - welcome dealers in dance and fortunes - songs and tales - and deviltry.
- Ivan: Peace is for old women and sheep! Shall our eyes drown in fat? Shall our bellies roll over our knees?
- Ivan: Tell the greasy lizard eater we obey the Tsar - but we still think he was descended from a she goat!
- Lukashka: Kneel, ugly barbarian - kneel to the highly civilized brother of the Sun and the Moon!
- Turk: Grovel, benighted old infidel - - grovel and beg mercy of the pious Crescent!