Silk Stockings (1957)

Wim Sonneveld: Peter Ilyitch Boroff

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Quotes 

• Peter Ilyitch Boroff : What? No more bows? Ach, what am I talking about? Soon I won't have a head to take a bow with.

• Peter Ilyitch Boroff : But, my music is not for singing.

  Peggy Dainton : Oh, but Mr. Boroff, baby, didn't you ever hear about, eh, Chicoughski and, eh, Boradean?

  Peter Ilyitch Boroff : Tchaikovsky and Borodin are different. As composers, they have what is in Russia today a great advantage.

  Peggy Dainton : Oh, what's that?

  Peter Ilyitch Boroff : They are dead.

• Peter Ilyitch Boroff : I can't do it, Miss Dainton. Please, ask me anything else.

  Peggy Dainton : Well, Mr. Boroff, baby, you see, that's all I want.

  [reveals her plunging neckline] 

  Peggy Dainton : I've got everything else and if you could do this little ol' thing for me, we could see a lot more of each other. You know, dinners and things - like that.

• Ninotchka Yoschenko : [observing a woman modeling a silk negligee]  Tell me, comrade, when a woman wears things like that, is it really so attractive to a man?

  Peter Ilyitch Boroff : In a word: Da!