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Nicholas and Alexandra Quotes

Nicholas and Alexandra is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Nicholas and Alexandra ended in 1970.

It features Sam Spiegel as producer, Richard Rodney Bennett in charge of musical score, and Freddie Young as head of cinematography.

Nicholas and Alexandra is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Nicholas and Alexandra is 188 minutes long. Nicholas and Alexandra is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Nicholas and Alexandra Quotes

  • (Unnamed) "At times I rather like it. Mending clothes, teaching classes, and quiet afternoons. I doze and daydream. I think about my life. I don't know what I did wrong. I'd feel better if I did."
  • (Unnamed) "Why wasn't I told they were marching?"
  • (Unnamed) "Would you have met them?"
  • (Unnamed) "How could I?"
  • (Unnamed) "Would you have given them a Duma?"
  • (Unnamed) "Of course not."
  • (Unnamed) "Elections? Schools?"
  • (Unnamed) "No --"
  • (Unnamed) "THEN WHY BOTHER TO INFORM YOU? YOU WOULDN'T HAVE DONE ANYTHING."
  • (Unnamed) "There. In just a few months, these will be turnips."
  • (Unnamed) "Carrots."
  • (Unnamed) "And when they grow, will we still be here to eat them?"
  • (Unnamed) "It's all right, Nagorny. You'll always save me."
  • (Unnamed) "Things. Things one can do without. They break. They get lost. One buys and sells them. The main thing is that we are together."
  • (Unnamed) "You enjoy yourself at parties. I get headaches. If you sat there, feeling everyone disliked you --"
  • (Unnamed) "No one dislikes you."
  • (Unnamed) "Yes, they do. You never see unpleasant things. You drift away. Sometimes I wonder if you even hear me half the time."
  • (Unnamed) "Just now, I find you all too audible."
  • (Unnamed) "Nicky? Guess what."
  • (Unnamed) "You've got your headache."
  • (Unnamed) "We had a man in Pokrovskoe. He didn't wash or work. He lied, stole, cheated, drank, chased all the women. He was a sinner. Why, out of all men, did the Virgin come to him?"
  • (Unnamed) "Perhaps he lied. You said he was a liar --"
  • (Unnamed) "No. She came. I saw her. I know all there is to know about sin. Pray with me, Matushka. God is here."
  • (Unnamed) "Murder, arson, terror, I'll agree to anything that gives us power. Power. And we can't have power if we compromise. Even though it takes years, terror and power."
  • (Unnamed) "Father? There's no hope, is there, father?"
  • (Unnamed) "Nonsense."
  • (Unnamed) "None at all."
  • (Unnamed) "The Government has fallen. We shall now begin to construct the socialist order."
  • (Unnamed) "I am old, sir. I have seen so many wars. They all seemed so important at the time, but now I don't even remember what they were called. Millions of dead men. I don't know why. Nobody knows. You could so easily stop this war, sir. All you have to do is get up, now, quietly, and go home to your family. You would be the greatest of all the Tsars."
  • (Unnamed) "He never came -- Nicholas the Murderer. The bloody, bloody murderer."
  • (Unnamed) "I can't leave. I want to serve Batushka and Matushka. I want peace, and food for peasants everywhere. I want that girl you you saw. And all the girls I haven't seen. I want to sleep, but can't sleep unless I'm drunk. I want to die and go to heaven. I want music. I want God to love me and I want to see YOU dance. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha."
  • (Unnamed) "No munitions, no supplies, I don't know where the army stands. The treasury is bankrupt, the students riot, the workers carry arms. The socialists want this, the Mensheviks want that, the radicals, the centrists, the cadets -- the Bolsheviks. I can't arrest them even if I wanted to. We have rights and laws now. You had power and no laws. I have laws and no power."
  • (Unnamed) "I wish I could help you."
  • (Unnamed) "You had your chances. I wish I had mine."
  • (Unnamed) "I know what will make them happy. They're children, and they need a Tsar. They need tradition. Not this. They're the victims of agitators. A Duma would make them bewildered and discontented. And don't tell me about London and Berlin. God save us from the mess they're in."
  • (Unnamed) "I see. So they talk, pray, march, plead, petition and what do they get? Cossacks, prison, flogging, police, spies, and now, after today, they will be shot. Is this God's will? Are these His methods? Make war on your own people? How long do you think they're going to stand there and let you shoot them? YOU ask ME who's responsible? YOU ask?"
  • (Unnamed) "The Russia my father gave me never lost a war. What shall I say to my son when the time comes? That I had no pride? That I was weak? I've always thought God meant me to rule. He put me here. He chose me, and whatever happens is His will. We shall fight on until victory."
  • (Unnamed) "I wish your father were alive."
  • (Unnamed) "Don't throw him at me."
  • (Unnamed) "He knew how to be a Tsar. He'd have burned Vienna down, stamped on the Germans, shot the strikers, ANYTHING to give Russia peace. And HE'D certainly know how to deal with Rasputin. YOUR FATHER KNEW HOW TO BE A TSAR."
  • (Unnamed) "The Tsar is here in Petersburg, to bless the troops. He's staying at the Winter Palace. Thousands of us will march there on Sunday morning. I'll go to him on the balcony, and read this: "Sire, we workingmen and inhabitants of St. Petersburg come to you, Sire, to seek for truth, justice, and protection. Only you can hear our prayers, and if you do not, we shall die, here on this square, before your palace.""
  • (Russian Guard) "Who's there?"
  • (Unnamed) "Citizen Nicholas Romanov."
  • (Unnamed) "Oh Nicky. This is the beginning of the glory of your reign. Our friend told me so. It will be the greatest page in Russian history, the story of these weeks and days. And while your gone, don't worry over what you've left behind. I'm here. Lean on me; use me. I'm not wise or strong, but God will show me what to do."
  • (Unnamed) "Nicky? Is it all right if I say something intimate?"
  • (Unnamed) "In public?"
  • (Unnamed) "I'll whisper it."
  • (Unnamed) "All right. What is it?"
  • (Unnamed) "Nicky -- I adore you."
  • (Unnamed) "It will be spring soon, at Livadia. That's where you'll send us I imagine. I've often thought I should like to be a country gentleman. I've always liked to watch things grow. It's lovely there. And warm. And they say the soil is very good. Much of the happiness I've known, I've had there."
  • (Unnamed) "In the last ten years I've spent -- three months in Russia. I'm out of fashion. No one's wearing me this year, hmmm? I talk and no one listens, and I write and no one reads. Think what we'll be like in 10 or 15 years. Emigres go off their heads in the end, you know."
  • (Unnamed) "No."
  • (Unnamed) "Mad old cranks with no money, no country, always worrying about the laundry, complaining when the mail's late, being ill in charity hospitals, and buried with paupers."
  • (Unnamed) "A son. I have a son."
  • (Unnamed) "Set all differences aside. We are Russians, first of all. And until the day of victory dawns, we stand united in the defense of Holy Russia."
  • (Unnamed) "Gentlemen, Germany has declared war on Russia. God save Russia."
  • (Unnamed) "God save the Tsar."
  • (Unnamed) "Why did you abdicate for me? You never asked."
  • (Unnamed) "I didn't want you to pay for my mistakes."
  • (Unnamed) "Am I not paying for them now? Aren't we all?"
  • (Unnamed) "Mother, I'm bleeding --"
  • (Unnamed) "Oh, my God --"
  • (Unnamed) "My place is where I'm needed most."
  • (Unnamed) "It must be hard to have so many people need you. I'll be patient. If I wait my turn will come."
  • (Unnamed) "Revolution. Revolution now. Land. Peace. All power to the soviets."
  • (Unnamed) "He's a good man. They always kill good men. The ones who've helped them most. They killed my grandfather. He freed the serfs, you know, he helped them. So they threw a bomb. Stolypin's a good man."
  • (Unnamed) "I can't find a match."
  • (Unnamed) "They've found the man who did it."
  • (Unnamed) "Man?"
  • (Unnamed) "Some sort of revolutionary."
  • (Unnamed) "Damn them all. You help them, and they kill you for it. Give them Dumas, and they give you bombs. I want them paid in kind. Do you understand me? I want something done."
  • (Nun) "Good day, and the Lord be with you."
  • (Unnamed) "And the Lord be with you. Ha ha."
  • (Unnamed) "I've been poisoned -- you tried to kill me -- you all have. You silly fools -- I thought I could trust you -- you silly fools -- you can't even KILL properly. You're too small to destroy me."
  • (Unnamed) "Get up, prince. Get up. Try. Let's see you try to kill me."
  • (Unnamed) "I'm going to die soon, my friends. I've made my will. I won't live to see the new year. And it makes me angry."
  • (Unnamed) "It's good to enjoy yourself with your friends, eh? I don't want to die."
  • (Unnamed) "Tell me, Doctor Fedorov. If my son, as the future Tsar, were left behind, to be educated, while I and my family went abroad, how long would he be likely to live, as a hemophiliac?"
  • (Unnamed) "Deprived of your love and care, and what I hear are his natural surroundings, it's hard to say, it's a matter of luck and care, your Majesty. There are no real statistics. One would hope that he could live a normal life, but, well -- twenty would be a good age."
  • (Unnamed) "Alexei spends all day with you. You hardly ever come to meals. I hardly ever seem to see you anymore."
  • (Unnamed) "My place is where I am needed most."
  • (Unnamed) "It must be hard to have so many people need you. I'll be patient. If I wait, my turn will come."
  • (Unnamed) "God bless you."
  • (Unnamed) "It's too late for that. But thank you."
  • (Unnamed) "All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy -- and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more. Sweet Jesus how much do you want of me?"
  • (Unnamed) "All we do is dream of England. We'd be very happy there."
  • (Unnamed) "England -- won't accept you."
  • (Unnamed) "Won't accept -- King George is my cousin."
  • (Unnamed) "He doesn't seem to want you either. He has to think of his own position. Neither will the French. None of our allies want to risk it. They are at war to save democracy and you were a tyrant."
  • (Unnamed) "It takes a wise judge to know who is innocent and who is guilty."
  • (Unnamed) "I see blood when I shut my eyes. A lot of blood. I saw blood once before, when I was in Jerusalem. And then my father died. In Kazan, there is an ivory Christ whose wounds bleed. Someone told me in Karkoff, there is a Madonna that sheds real tears. Matushka, I see things. I have power. I cure the sick. Holy men kneel to me and kiss my hands. I am a vessel of the Lord. I have spoken with God. It must be so, how else can I do these things? I save souls and bring peace. God leads me. He brought me here. He speaks through me. I am the voice of God. It is His will. I have been sent to do great things."
  • (Unnamed) "Think of it -- Russia princess' doing a English play in French for Polish nobles -- I do hope someone understands it"
  • (Unnamed) "So, you'd like to be an opera singer? Yes, you have the chest for it."
  • (Unnamed) "All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy -- and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more. Sweet jesus how much do you want of me?"
  • (Unnamed) "No sunshine today? What a shame. I suppose you're not well enough to be outside. What's it like then, being sick?"
  • (Unnamed) "What's it like having gray eyes?"
  • (Unnamed) "My very own darling. Remember last night when we were together? I yearn for your caresses, I can never have enough of them. I kiss you, caress you, love you, long for you, can't sleep without you, bless you. Sunny."
  • (Unnamed) "Sometimes I wonder how you live with me."
  • (Unnamed) "I wonder too. Only I know I could never live without you -- Sunny."
  • (Unnamed) "I'd like to kill them."
  • (Unnamed) "Wait and see. They'll do what's right."
  • (Unnamed) "I know him. He's a murderer."
  • (Unnamed) "He's a thoughtful man. He'll send Nagorny back to us. He's not a monster. I've never known a heart without some murder in it. I made these men. They are our Russians. I am responsible for what they are. I let them starve. I put them in prisons. And I shot them. If there's hatred in them now, I put it there. But they ARE filled with love. And mercy, too. You must remember that."
  • (Unnamed) "They are all murderers."
  • (Unnamed) "I'd like to kill them all."
  • (Unnamed) "A strong man has no need of power, and a weak man is destroyed by it."
  • (Unnamed) "I didn't want to come on this Tercentenary tour, Peter Arkadiavitch. But, God help me, I do love it when they stand and wave."
  • (Unnamed) ""I feel that I shall leave life before January the first. If any of your relatives have brought my death, then none of your family, none of your children, or relatives, will remain alive. They will be killed by the Russian people. Brother will kill brother and there will be no nobles left in the country.""
  • (Unnamed) "The Bolsheviks have taken over the station, the telegraphs, the banks? If we had loyal troops, how many would it take to dislodge them?"
  • (Unnamed) "One regiment would be enough. But we haven't got a regiment. At least, not one we can trust."
  • (Unnamed) "It's outrageous. We are here in Zurich, and if I understand you, you want the German government, which is at war with Russia, to take you to Sweden, because you can get across to Russia from there."
  • (Unnamed) "I'm offering to stop the war."
  • (Unnamed) "I didn't know you had so much authority."
  • (Unnamed) "If there was a Bolshevik government in Russia, we'd immediately make peace with Germany. Then how many German divisions could you transfer to the western front ?"
  • (Unnamed) "And now you are asking for classified information. Do you realize my government has locked up more Bolsheviks than anyone else? How can you expect us to help you make a revolution? You have no sense of proportion."
  • (Unnamed) "All I'm interested in is power in Russia and it's lying there on the streets, waiting to be picked up. Kerensky won't last. He's still fighting the war, and the people are desperate for peace. I shall offer them peace. Then you'll see the real revolution."
  • (Unnamed) "I can't stop the Revolution, but until it comes, let's have some fun."
  • (Unnamed) "Here's some wonderful news, a telegram from the Kaiser, just what we wanted, offering to mediate between us and Austria."
  • (Unnamed) "I knew I could count on Willie. You see? He signed it "Your very dear and devoted cousin, Willie.""
  • (Unnamed) "With all due respect to your cousin, Sire, the Kaiser is a deceitful megalomaniac. If he is offering to help, then it is time to pray."
  • (Unnamed) "I came to congratulate you, Nicky."
  • (Unnamed) "What for?"
  • (Unnamed) "For finding, out of all Russia's countless cretins, idiots and incompetents the men least qualified to run your government."
  • (Unnamed) "Do you have penalties in your new world for innocence?"
  • (Unnamed) "Sometimes."
  • (Unnamed) "I've kept their mail from them all this time. I didn't know whether they should have it or not. Should I give it to them now, would it be cruel, or kind? I can't judge this kind of thing. I don't think anyone can."
  • (Unnamed) "We're going to be torn to pieces. You politicians think you're in control, but you'll be swept away like the rest of us. Rome, Athens, Petersburg, you can't stop it. In the meantime, I shall enjoy myself. Come to my place on Thursday, Rasputin. I'm having a special little party. This beautiful scarf, have it. I can't stop the revolution, but until it comes, let's have some fun. Even if it's only for a few more days."

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