- Grigory Potemkin: It's a great adventure, Matushka. Are you tired of adventure?
- Catherine the Great: Well, no one's asking me to go on an adventure! Oh no, I say here in the palace, and I write and I write and I write, and I - I'm a graphomaniac, permanently in committee.
- Grigory Potemkin: Well, I want to run. I can't stand a life without adventure.
- Alexi Orlov: Do you think she even likes men? She eats them, and spits them out. Well, look at my poor brother. Potemkin almost certainly can't satisfy her. I am told that she requires her men in teams of 12 - they do it in relays, and only trained athletes need apply.