Lisztomania (1975)

Fiona Lewis: Marie

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Quotes 

• Marie d'Agoult : Spare him, Francois! Don't cut off his... genius in it's prime!

  Count d'Agoult : Oh, is that what you call it?

• Marie d'Agoult : Your big ambition was to stick your working class cock up a piece of high class crumpet.

• Marie d'Agoult : Titles, my dear, have never made aristocrats out of peasants.

• Marie d'Agoult : Take me with you on your tours.

  Liszt : Remember the scandal when we tried that in London?

  Marie d'Agoult : Its not my fault if the English are prudes.

  Liszt : The box office took a proper bloody nose to it.

  Marie d'Agoult : Oh, bugger the box office!

• Liszt : They never heard me play in Russia. It would be a shame to waste that good publicity.

  Marie d'Agoult : And while you're storming Moscow, Napoleon, I suppose I'm expected to sit at home like Josephine, saving your press cuttings and knitting your mittens.

  Liszt : I won't be cold, love. Not with all those Russian muffs around.

  [sticks out and wiggles his tongue] 

• Marie d'Agoult : It's not that I object at being your mistress. What I really object to is to being *one* of your mistresses.

• Marie d'Agoult : I believed in you then.

  Liszt : All you believed in was a stiff cock and the fact that your old man never had one.

• Cosima : Beautiful. I recognize the theme that Wagner borrowed - stole.

  Liszt : He was welcome to it. I had plenty more. I didn't mind him taking it. It was what he did with it was horrible.

  Princess Carolyn : Let's face it. We were all pretty horrible - and selfish.

  Marie d'Agoult : The bad is dead and buried. The best of us lives on, enshrined in his music. And that's for everyone to share.

  Lola Montez : Forever.

  Cosima : Forever