- Catherine: Officer! Officer! Please show me the way out.
- Grand Duke Peter: Out of where?
- Catherine: Out of the palace! Out of the town! Out of the whole barbarian country!
- Grand Duke Peter: What's happened?
- Catherine: He insulted me!
- Grand Duke Peter: Who?
- Catherine: The Grand Duke Peter.
- Grand Duke Peter: Oh, that fellow.
- Catherine: You know him?
- Grand Duke Peter: Oh, yes, I know him.
- Catherine: Oh, then perhaps you know why he refuses to marry me... why he refuses even to see me.
- Grand Duke Peter: Well... well, perhaps they suggested some other German princesses to him. Maybe... maybe he prefers one of them.
- Catherine: Which one?
- Grand Duke Peter: Well, there's the, uh, Mecklenburg princess.
- Catherine: Oh, that's impossible!
- Grand Duke Peter: Why?
- Catherine: Because she has a cavalier moustache and rabbit's teeth.
- Grand Duke Peter: Well, then there's the, uh, the Oldenburg princess.
- Catherine: Which one? Which one? There are four. Oh, old maids! I know them all. I tell you I'm far the best, and far the prettiest too.