Mockery

Sergei:
[to the Countess] Can't we be together, lonesome little peasant maid?

Vladimir Gaidaroff:
[Alarmed, to his wife as he sees an approaching revolutionary] The Revolution is on the stairs!

Mrs. Gaidaroff:
[to Sergei] I refuse to call an idiot like you twice!

Sergei:
[to the Countess] Now I am the master here!

Mrs. Gaidaroff:
[to her husband] Try to be a man - at least before your servants!

Ivan - the Gatekeeper:
[to Sergei] Do you think the upstairs pigs ever keep their promises to us downstairs?

Ivan - the Gatekeeper:
[to Sergei] Why does the Captain get kisses, while you get lashes?

Capt. Dimitri:
[to the Countess] I aplogize for my lips, Countess... and I apologize for my eyes... but I cannot apologize for my heart.