Great Catherine

Potemkin:
Is true. The English despise men who are half drunk. I must make myself completely drunk.

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
I must allow myself to say, ma'am, that your uncle had better not attempt to kick an Englishman downstairs.

Potemkin:
You want me to kick you upstairs?

Potemkin:
Young man. It is not better to be drunk than sober. But it is happier.

Potemkin:
You have no hearts, you English! Heart! Heart! [slaps the right side of his chest]

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
Pardon, your highness. Your heart is on the other side. [... ]

Potemkin:
Darling! A true Russian has a heart on both sides!

Potemkin:
Have you had a college education, darling? I have.

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
Certainly. I am a bachelor of arts.

Potemkin:
Once she know you are a bachelor, Catherine will supply the arts.

Potemkin:
In Russia, a gentleman has no scruples. In Russia we face facts.

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
In England a gentleman never faces any facts if they are unpleasant.

Potemkin:
Why not merely get rid of him? Send him to Siberia!

Catherine:
Don't be stupid, Potemkin. He's English. He would have the place colonized within a year.

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
Your majesty, would you be a little angel mother and tie me up again?

Catherine:
Charles... [she ties him up like a trussed chicken]

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
I really am most awfully grateful.

Catherine:
I didn't know they did this sort of thing in England.

Catherine:
Let me help you, captain. If only to show you that a Russian savage can be kinder than an English one. Though I'm sorry to say that I'm German.

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
Don't call me 'darling'. I've been called 'darling' all morning.

Claire:
By who?

Capt. Charles Edstaston:
By everybody. By the most unatterable swine. And if we don't leave this abominable city now - do you hear, now! - I shall be called 'darling' by the empress.

[last lines]

Catherine:
If I could only have had him for my... for my...

Potemkin:
For your lover?

Potemkin:
No. For my museum.

Potemkin:
Varinka, go look through keyhole in imperial bedchamber and bring back word whether empress is awake yet.

Varinka:
I do not look through keyholes.

Varinka:
You have been badly brought up, my little darling. Would any lady or gentleman walk into a room unannounced without first looking through keyhole?