- Maria Dmitrievna: Things are blowing up again with that fellow, what's his name, Bonaparte.
- Count Rostov: Oh, it'll blow over, believe me.
- Maria Dmitrievna: It'll blow over when they put an end to him, and not before.
- Maria Dmitrievna: Nikolai didn't come to see me on his last leave.
- Count Rostov: Well, you know what young men are.
- Maria Dmitrievna: Yes, I know what they are and I know what they ought to be, which is more to the point. Has he come back?
- Count Rostov: Yes, to wind up his affairs. He's leaving the army.
- Maria Dmitrievna: And so he should. Wasting his time playing at soldiers. Stuff and nonsense. He ought to be doing men's work, not boys'.
- Maria Dmitrievna: I went yesterday to see Prince Bolkonsky.
- Count Rostov: Did he receive you?
- Maria Dmitrievna: Yes, and I had a talk with him, if you can call it that. He saw fit to scream at me. But I'm not easily shouted down. I said what I had to say.
- Count Rostov: And he? What did he say?
- Maria Dmitrievna: He said a great many things I choose not to remember, and other things I chose not to hear. But you know, he's very old, he's become a bit of a fool, so what's the use of talking?
- Maria Dmitrievna: I think you should take her to see him.
- Count Rostov: You think?
- Maria Dmitrievna: Well, you know that the father is against the marriage. Of course, Prince Andrei is not a child, and he can do without him, but it's not nice to go into a family against the will of the father.
- Natasha Rostova: I think I should wait for Andrei to return.
- Maria Dmitrievna: Oh, but why wait? How nice for him when he comes back, to find that you already know them and that they like you.
- Natasha Rostova: They may not.
- Maria Dmitrievna: Oh, you're a clever girl. You'll manage.
- Natasha Rostova: I don't see why I should have to, Aunt. I'm not marrying them.
- Maria Dmitrievna: Oh, listen to her. High and mighty. You'll use your sense, girl, and make the effort. No need to look for trouble where there may be none.
- Pierre Bezukhov: Have you seen the comet? They say it portends the end of the world, or some great disaster, like war. I don't know. Why shouldn't it portend something joyful, some great new experience, eh? Why only war and misfortune?
- Sonya: Natasha, do you know what you're doing? You've hardly known this man a week.
- Natasha Rostova: It's as if I've loved him for a hundred years.
- Anatole Kuragin: Will you come with me?
- Natasha Rostova: Yes.
- Anatole Kuragin: I'll get horses.
- Natasha Rostova: Well, where should we go?
- Anatole Kuragin: Who knows? France, probably. As long as we're together, what does it matter?
- Pierre Bezukhov: If I were not myself, but were the handsomest, cleverest, best man in the world, and were free, I would go down on my knees this minute, and I'd ask you to marry me. Yes, this minute.