A Royal Scandal (1945)

Charles Coburn: Chancellor Nicolai Ilyitch

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• Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : My dear marquis, I'm so embarrassed. A perfect stranger coming out of the wall.

  Marquis de Fleury : Oh, please do not even mention. In Paris nothing but secret entrances. Only the husbands and servants use the regular doors. In the salon of Madame du Barry, you can see the best people coming out of the book shelves.

• Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : He's worse than the 14th. And Louis XIV was worse than the 13th. That's the trouble with France. Too many Louis's.

• Lt. Alexei Chernoff : Look, here are 50 rubles. Please take me to her majesty.

  Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : You can't bribe the chancellor of Russia. Not with 50 rubles.

• Lt. Alexei Chernoff : You're the chancellor? The man everybody says is ruining Russia?

  Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : You're from the East?

  Lt. Alexei Chernoff : No, from the West.

  Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : How things do get around. It's amazing.

• Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : I beg your majesty not to waste your precious energy. We have these minor revolutions every day.

• Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : I even dreamed about you last night.

  Gen. Ronsky : Something bad?

  Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch : I don't know yet. I'm going to dream the end tonight.