"War & Peace" New Beginnings (TV Episode 1972) - Sylvester Morand as Nikolai Rostov

Boris Drubetskoy : Did you come to Tilsit to catch a glimpse of the great man?

Nikolai Rostov : Who, Bonaparte?

Boris Drubetskoy : The emperor Napoleon.

Nikolai Rostov : He'll always be Bonaparte to me. I don't know how you can stand having these French around.

Boris Drubetskoy : The two emperors meet tomorrow in the river Neman on a raft to sign a truce. We've got to get used to one another. We're no longer enemies.

Nikolai Rostov : Well, I find it very hard to get used to, but then, I'm not on the staff.
Nikolai Rostov : What right have you to criticize the emperor?

Russian soldier : Well, I was only saying...

Nikolai Rostov : You've got no right to say. We're soldiers, not diplomats. It's our duty to die when we're commanded, not to be judges. If we were to judge and argue over everything, where would we be? There'd be nothing left sacred, no God, nothing.
Nikolai Rostov : Civilians never look on husbands the same way that soldiers do.
Nikolai Rostov : Oh god, I love them. Why do I love them so? Natasha and Sonya, little Petya, Mama and Papa, yes, even Vera. All of them. And this house. Look at me weeping. For what? It's so silly, and sentimental. Dolokhov would laugh. Well, let him. What are men like Dolokhov, compared with them? Nothing. Nothing.

Sylvester Morand: Nikolai Rostov