Quotes

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina: If you have any thought for me you will give me back my peace!
Count Vronsky: There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Alexei Karenin: I consider jealously to be insulting to you and degrading to me. I have no right to inquire into your feelings. They concern only your conscience.

Countess Nordston: Would you die for love, Konstantin Dmitrich?
Levin: I would. But not for my neighbour's wife.
[pause]
Levin: An impure love is not love, to me. To admire another man's wife is a pleasant thing, but sensual desire indulged for its own sake is greed, a kind of gluttony, and a misuse of something sacred which is given to us so that we may choose the one person with whom to fulfill our humanness. Otherwise we might as well be cattle.
Countess Nordston: Ah, an idealist!
[laughter erupts]

Alexei Karenin: Is this about my wife? My wife is beyond reproach. She is, after all, my wife.

Alexei Karenin: I must warn you about something!
Anna Karenina: Warn me?
Alexei Karenin: You may, by indiscretion, give the world occasion to talk about you.

Alexei Karenin: We are bound together by god and this can only be broken by a crime against god!

Anna Karenina: I am not ashamed of who I am or what I've done. Are you ashamed for me?

Prince Tverskoy: The man who can't govern his wife, has gone as far as he can go in government.

Levin: [observing his servants] They look happier than I've ever been. Is it living simply that I'm looking for?

Alexei Karenin: [Anna is in bed. Alexie Karenin is getting ready for bed. Anna listens apprehensively to the little noises of Karenin's pre-coital preparations] ... not that I care for decorations but...
Anna Karenina: Alexei... I can't... I'm sorry... But I'm his wife now. I am having his child.

Countess Lydia: Your husband is a saint and we must all cherish him for Russias sake.

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