Liszt Quotes in Lisztomania (1975)

Cosima: I've polished your sword! What do you want it for, to kill the critics?

Liszt: Time kills critics, my dear.

Liszt: Piss off, Brahms!

Richard Wagner: The trouble with your friends, Liszt, is they're all bourgeois pigs.

Liszt: Oh, pigs if you please. But aristocratic pigs, not bourgeois.

Princess Carolyn: You and the Tsar are just different sides of the same coin: false gods worshiped in different ways. Dress the Tsar as a peasant and you have a peasant.

[searches for Liszt]

Princess Carolyn: Stop skulking behind that screen!

[continues]

Princess Carolyn: Dress Liszt in a crinoline and what do you have? The same thing: a sham. Rather than walk naked through the world, he chooses to play the imposter. What do you say?

Liszt: Bollocks!

Princess Carolyn: "Bollocks"? I don't speak Hungarian.

Liszt: I know it sounds improbable, Your Holiness, but I...

The Pope: But truth is stranger than fiction? We've kept going for two thousand years on that one.