Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.