Gen. Dolgorucki: Why are you not in uniform?
Lev Andreyev: My lungs are weak.
Gen. Dolgorucki: Perhaps it is your courage that is weak.
Lev Andreyev: It doesn't require courage to send others to battle and death.
[the angry Duke uses his crop to whip Andreyev across the face]

- William Powell (as Lev Andreyev) in The Last Command (1928)

Lev Andreyev: [about the Duke] Let him strut a little longer. His days are numbered!

- William Powell (as Lev Andreyev) in The Last Command (1928)