General Velementov Quotes

Catherine: What do they want?

Velementov: I don't know. Any time one of them talks, the others start yelling. I made them put their pistols in a bucket.

Catherine: It's times like these I am so glad you are my key military strategist.

Velementov: I have a special vodka given to me by Peter the Great on the day he made me a General.

Catherine: Which you have opened in advance.

Velementov: Uh, taste testing in case it's poisoned. I lay my life before my Empress.

Velementov: I will not launch a pointless assault. They are trapped, but they are also heavily fortified on both flanks. The central path is a death trap.

Catherine: You can't get in?

Velementov: In layman's terms.

Catherine: Laywoman's.

Velementov: Indeed. But yes, he is trapped.

(Children are playing with a head of a dead man...)

Catherine: Do not demean our nation and yourselves by losing sight of the preciousness of life, yours and his. Ask yourself, what can I make of my life? What intrinsic good can I do that elevates my humanity?

Girl: I don't know what a lot of that means.

Velementov: "Don't be little sh*ts" is what it means.