Great Catherine (1968)

Jeanne Moreau: Catherine

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Quotes 

• Potemkin : Why not merely get rid of him? Send him to Siberia!

  Catherine : Don't be stupid, Potemkin. He's English. He would have the place colonized within a year.

• Catherine : Let me help you, captain. If only to show you that a Russian savage can be kinder than an English one. Though I'm sorry to say that I'm German.

• Capt. Charles Edstaston : Your majesty, would you be a little angel mother and tie me up again?

  Catherine : Charles...

  [she ties him up like a trussed chicken] 

  Capt. Charles Edstaston : I really am most awfully grateful.

  Catherine : I didn't know they did this sort of thing in England.

• [last lines] 

  Catherine : If I could only have had him for my... for my...

  Potemkin : For your lover?

  Catherine : No. For my museum.