The Cossacks (1928)

Renée Adorée: Maryana

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Quotes 

• Maryana : Work - work - work! Is there nothing in life but work?

  Ulitka - Maryana's Mother : Work and a man! - what else could there be?

• Maryana : Keep away from me - chewer of sun-flower seeds!

• Lukashka : Maryana! Come play with me - !

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

• 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!

• Maryana : Blessed Lord, make Lukashka brave. Let him kill a Turk - - perhaps two Turks...

• Maryana : When I marry - - I marry a Cossack!

  Prince Olenin Stieshneff : Marry a Cossack? - work like a field beast - lose your loveliness - grow old - ?

  Maryana : Cossacks never grow old. They live - - and they die.

• Maryana : Cossack love is pig love! - I want none of it!