The Very Same Munchhausen

"Any love is legal if it is love."

"I am not afraid to look ridiculous. Not everyone can afford it."

"Divorce is one of the highest achievements of mankind! It only takes a minute to fall in love. To get a divorce, sometimes you have to live 20 years together. It's been a tough 20 years but I don't regret them! Once upon a time, Socrates told me: "You should marry anyway. If you're lucky to get a good wife — you'll become a happy man. If you get a bad wife - you'll become a philosopher." Can't decide which is better..."

""I, Baron Munchhausen, an ordinary man..." Sounds like the beginning of a romance song. "I didn't fly to the moon." All right, I didn't. But... If you only knew, my dears, how beautiful moon is... White mountains and red stones at sunset... All right! I've never ridden on a cannonball... In that terrible battle with the Turks, when half of my regiment perished. They drove us into that damn swamp, but we held out! We held out and struck from the flank! But then my horse stumbled and began to sink. And then I grabbed my hair and pulled... and we rose above the sedge... I'll sign it... I'll sign... why tease the geese."

"Since no one needs an extra day of spring, let's forget about it. It's hard to live on such a day, but easy to die."

"I wish you would understand at last, that Münchhausen is famous not because he flew to the moon or because he didn't, but because he never lies!"

"I have called you together, gentlemen, to tell you an unpleasant piece of news. Damn it, what a great line to start a play. I'll have to suggest it to someone. ["I have called you together, gentlemen, to tell you an unpleasant piece of news" is the first line from Nikolai Gogol's comedy "The Inspector-General" (1836)]"

"A serious face is not yet an indication of intellect. All the stupid things in the world are done with exactly that expression. Smile, gentlemen! Smile!"

"Tomorrow is the anniversary of your death. Are you trying to ruin our holiday?"

"There is no truth at all. The truth is what is currently considered the truth."

"I won't let you drop the waist line to hips. After all, we are the center of Europe. I won't let any Spaniards to dictate terms to us. If you want a detachable sleeve — please. Do you want a pleated skirt with darts? I accept this too. But I will not let you to lower the waistline."

"Order to Army: general mobilization! Call all reservists. Cancel vacations. Form the Guard on the central square. Dress code — summer, full dress. Blue uniforms with gold trim. Sewn in sleeves. Wide lapels. The waist 10 cm lower than in peace time... that is higher."

"Where is my military uniform?.. What?! Me — in this? Single-breasted?! What, you don't know what's no one is fighting single-breasted anymore? What a disgrace! The war is on the doorstep, but we are not ready!"

"Baron, you are a reasonable man. I have always treated you with sympathy. I respected your way of thinking: loose shoulder line, skinny pantaloons. Could you be an example for our youth. It needs it so much."

"Being somewhat nervously overexcited, the Duke suddenly grabbed and signed several petitions for divorce with the words: “Free, free everyone!”"

"At first, celebrations were planned, then arrests. Then they decided to combine them."

"Rammkopf: (reads Baron's day schedule) "Getting up at 6 a.m."!"

"Oleg Yankovskiy — Baron Münchhausen"

"Inna Churikova — Jacobine von Münchhausen"

"Yelena Koreneva — Martha"

"Igor Kvasha — Burgomaster"

"Aleksandr Abdulov — Heinrich Rammkopf"

"Leonid Yarmolnik — Theophil von Münchhausen"

"Yuriy Katin-Yartsev — Thomas"

"Vladimir Dolinskiy — Pastor"

"Leonid Bronevoy — Duke of Hanover"

"Semyon Farada — Commander-in-Chief"

"Vsevolod Larionov — Judge"