The Cossacks (1928)

John Gilbert: Lukashka

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• Lukashka : Maryana! Come play with me - !

  Maryana : Always you want to play! I am a woman now - you are a man!

• Lukashka : What are years? I am the same Lukashka - you are are the same Maryana - ! The woods are full of wild lilies - and I know a brook where a turtle lives!

• Lukashka : Maryana, why can't it be as it used to be with us?

  Maryana : The village talks of you! You are not a Cossack - you are a cowslip!

• Maryana : Why aren't you like other men? - - why don't you fight?

  Lukashka : Why smell myself up with blood - when I can look into your eyes?

  Maryana : My uncle's son is not your age - but already he has killed ten Turks!

  Lukashka : Your uncle's son can't kiss as I can!

• Lukashka : Put goose grease on your bruises, father - tomorrow we ride against the Turk!

• Lukashka : The smell of blood... is not so bad!

• Ivan : We draw near to - vodka!

  Lukashka : And to - women!

  Cossack : Vodka first - women later!

• Lukashka : I don't understand women - and thank the Holy Father I don't -...

• Lukashka : Vodka - and women! - Gypsy music - Gypsy women!

• Lukashka : Since when has the Tsar's anger mattered to a Cossack?

  Ivan : Well spoken, my son - your father rides with you! I could never stomach that lily nose from Moscow, anyhow!

• Lukashka : Kneel, ugly barbarian - kneel to the highly civilized brother of the Sun and the Moon!

  Turk : Grovel, benighted old infidel - - grovel and beg mercy of the pious Crescent!

• Lukashka : That old pelican... with the cushion on his head... is he the Sultan, father?

  Ivan : No, my son... that greasy person is only the Great Scullion's pot-boy... the Wazir!