War & Peace (TV Series)

Sounds of War (1972)

Anthony Jacobs: Prince Bolkonsky

Quotes 

• Prince Bolkonsky : Mathematics is a most important subject. Persevere, and you'll learn to like it. You don't want to be like all the other silly women in the world, do you?

• Prince Bolkonsky : Are all the clocks in this house wrong except mine?

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Am I late?

  Prince Bolkonsky : Three minutes late. That's three minutes gone, three minutes wasted. Who could afford to waste three minutes a day?

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : I'm sorry, Father. I've seen to the arrangements for Andrei and Lisa. They'll be here soon.

  Prince Bolkonsky : Excuses. Everyone always has excuses. The fact is, you've lost three minutes this morning. Now how will you get them back? I can't give them to you, or the loss becomes mine as well. Order, young lady, order. What is order?

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : The prime condition of successful activity.

  Prince Bolkonsky : Exactly, exactly. To accomplish anything in our lives, we need order. A timetable.

• Prince Bolkonsky : And, here's something else your friend sent. A book, a religious book. I looked through it. It's a lot of nonsense, like all religious books. Still, I don't interfere with people's beliefs. Now, put it away, and look at the diagram in the geometry book. Geometry books tell us more than religious books. Geometry books tell us how to calculate, which is more important than learning how to pray.

• Prince Bolkonsky : I'm too busy for bad health.

  Princess Lisa Bolkonskya : Thank God for that.

  Prince Bolkonsky : God has nothing to do with it. I keep myself busy.