Eastern Promises Quotes

Semyon recommends this place for business meetings, because you can see what tattoos a man has. Come on, we have a lot to cover. Let's cook.

Ah, he has been touched by the angels.

Mmm! That's just like the borsht my Father used to make.

Forget any of this happened. Stay away from people like me.

I'm the driver.

Dasvidaniya, Anna Inanovna.

Azim: He says "Christmas." So I say to him,
Azim: "Should we go shopping?"
Azim: The kid's 16. He says, "But uncle, it's Christmas."

Anna: Why are you doing this, why are you helping us?
Nikolai Luzhin: I can't become king if someone else already sits on the throne.

Anna: My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary.
Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.

Anna: So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?
Nikolai Luzhin: I'm just a driver.

Anna: Have you ever met a girl named Tatiana?
Nikolai Luzhin: I meet lot of girls named Tatiana.
Anna: She was pregnant.
Nikolai Luzhin: Ah, in that case - no, I've never heard of her.
Anna: She died on my shift.
Nikolai Luzhin: I thought you did birth?
Anna: Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen. Do you think Semyon's son knew her?
Nikolai Luzhin: I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead - that's it.

I read the diary. She was a virgin! The baby's definitely his.

Sentimental value? Ah. I heard of that.

Kirill, we don't kill little babies.

Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.

Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things.

Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.

Stay alive a little longer.

So what do you care? Slaves give birth to slaves.