Nikolai Rogozhin Quotes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

Holmes: [after he learns Madame Petrova wants him to impregnate her] This is all very flattering, but surely there are other men, better men.

Nikolai Rogozhin: To tell truth, you were not the first choice. We considered Russian writer, Tolstoy.

Holmes: Oh, that's more like it. The man's a genius.

Nikolai Rogozhin: Too old. Then we considered philosopher, Nietzsche.

Holmes: Well, absolutely first-rate mind.

Nikolai Rogozhin: Uh-uh. Too German. Then we considered Tchaikovsky.

Holmes: Oh, you couldn't go wrong with Tchaikovsky.

Nikolai Rogozhin: We could, and we did. It was catastrophe.

Holmes: Why?

Nikolai Rogozhin: You don't know? Because Tchaikovsky, how shall I put it? Women not his glass of tea.

Nikolai Rogozhin: Mr. Holmes, what you have seen tonight is last, and positively final performance of Madame Petrova. She is retiring.

Holmes: What a shame.

Nikolai Rogozhin: She's been dancing since she was three years old, and after all, she is now thirty-eight.

Holmes: I must say, she doesn't *look* thirty-eight.

Nikolai Rogozhin: That is because she is forty-nine.

Holmes: Madame must not be too hasty. She must remember that I am an Englishman.

Nikolai Rogozhin: So?

Holmes: You know what they say about us: if there's one thing more deplorable than our cooking, it's our lovemaking. We are not the most romantic of people.

Nikolai Rogozhin: Perfect! We don't want sentimental idiots, falling in love, committing suicide. One week in Venice with Madame, she goes back to St. Petersburg with baby, you go back to London with fiddle.