The Cossacks (1928)

Ernest Torrence: Ivan

Quotes 

• Ivan : Our bellies are a desert! Our tongues dry up! Vodka for all!

• Ivan : We'll slit every unbelieving throat that gurgles in these mountains!

  [church bell rings] 

  Ivan : Now to prayer!

• Ivan : We draw near to - vodka!

  Lukashka : And to - women!

  Cossack : Vodka first - women later!

• Ivan : Peace is for old women and sheep! Shall our eyes drown in fat? Shall our bellies roll over our knees?

• Ivan : Tell the greasy lizard eater we obey the Tsar - but we still think he was descended from a she goat!

• Lukashka : Since when has the Tsar's anger mattered to a Cossack?

  Ivan : Well spoken, my son - your father rides with you! I could never stomach that lily nose from Moscow, anyhow!

• Lukashka : That old pelican... with the cushion on his head... is he the Sultan, father?

  Ivan : No, my son... that greasy person is only the Great Scullion's pot-boy... the Wazir!