War and Peace (1956)
John Mills: Platon Karataev
Quotes
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Platon Karatsev : [explaining why a boy was executed] Where there's law, there's injustice.
[to his dog]
Platon Karatsev : C'mon, boy, get up, get up!
[to Pierre]
Platon Karatsev : But the maggot eats the cabbage - yet dies first.
Pierre Bezukhov : What did you say?
Platon Karatsev : I say things happen not as we plan them but as God judges.
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Platon Karatsev : [to the French soldier who is about to execute him during the retreat] Are you afraid too, friend?
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Platon Karatsev : [about the camp followers of Napoleon's retreating army] Russian women!
Pierre Bezukhov : They're the lice that live on the conquerors. They have to leave or die.