- Helene Bezukhova: You've made an exhibition of yourself. And of me. Someone told you that Dolokhov was my lover, and you believed them. Now you've made us the talk of all Moscow.
- Pierre Bezukhov: Are you asking me to believe that you're innocent?
- Helene Bezukhova: Of course, I'm innocent! Though, no one would blame me if I had taken a lover. It's not much fun being married to a drunken oaf like you, you know. Most people think you're half out of your wits.
- Pierre Bezukhov: How can I know God if all my powers of reasoning tell me he cannot exist?
- Osip Alexeevich Bazdeev: God is not apprehended by reason, my son, but by life.
- Osip Alexeevich Bazdeev: Always aid your brother man. Raise up the fallen. Forgive your enemy. Take no revenge upon him, unless it be but to do him good. Go out into the world now. Live not for yourself, but for others.
- Natasha Rostova: Mama says that girls are like mayflies. That they have their day in the sun and then it's over.
- Sonya Rostova: Well, it's more than a day. But how long?
- Natasha Rostova: A year or two to choose or be chosen, and then... And then that's our life settled. Forever. It's frightening.
- Sonya Rostova: We'll just have to choose right, that's all.
- Vassily Denisov: Didn't exactly enhance our reputations on leave, did we?
- Nikolai Rostov: I certainly didn't.
- Vassily Denisov: When the leave's too long, the soldier goes wrong.
- Vassily Denisov: We've changed sides. Our enemies are our friends now.
- Nikolai Rostov: So we're friends with the French now?
- Vassily Denisov: I know. I know. It's a mad world. No use trying to understand.
- Bilibin: Since Austerlitz he's been attached to the Prussian staff. Our oldest allies. They've only betrayed us four times in the last three years.