Conquest (1937)
Maria Ouspenskaya: Countess Pelagia Walewska
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Quotes
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : Who are you?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I am Napoleon!
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Napoleon? Napoleon who?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Hmm? Bonaparte!
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Napoleon Bonaparte? What kind of name is that? What nationality are you?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Corsican by birth. French by adoption. Emperor by achievement.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : So, you are an Emperor, are you? What are you Emperor of?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Emperor of France, madame.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Hee, hee, hee. So you are Emperor of France. And my very good friend, His Majesty, King Louis Sixteenth abdicated in your honor, I suppose?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Well, he didn't know it at the time but in a sense he did, madame.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : This house is getting to be a lunatic asylum.
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : What were you before you became an Emperor?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : A corporal.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : That's what I thought. A soldier. Why do you say you were an Emperor?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : One can be both, Madame. Alexander was.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : Everybody who goes crazy thinks he is Alexander. Now, if Alexander went crazy, who would he think he was?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : Napoleon.
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Countess Pelagia Walewska : Emperor! Corporal! Alexander! Are you Caesar too?
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : A touch.
Countess Pelagia Walewska : You bear watching.
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte : I hear that on every side, Madame.