- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: He's the greatest music publisher in Vienna!
- Fritz Schiller: Well, he's still Hofbauer.
- Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher: Mark my words, young man, if it hasn't got the imprint of Hofbauer, it isn't even music.
- Policeman outside Hohenfried's: Don't forget to turn out the light.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: I was just going to arrest her, don't you see how guilty she looks?
- Policeman outside Hohenfried's: I wish my wife looked as guilty as that.
- Carla Donner: Where are we?
- Coachman: Where you wanted to be, in the Vienna Woods, and it's only six o'clock in the morning, and you have a long and beautiful day ahead of you.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Something difficult and honest had to be said, and it was just like you to say it.
- Dommayer: We shall be glad to refund the money; but, you see, the performance is over.
- Cellist: But we don't want the money. We want the music. The performance is not over.
- Dommayer: Just a moment, please. Just a moment, please. I am August Dommayer, owner of Dommayer's Casino and the performance is over!
- Cellist: And I'm Fritz Cellist, the first tenor of the Imperial Opera and the performance is *not* over!
- Dommayer: I don't care who you are, the performance is over!
- Carla Donner: [smiles] The performance is *not* over.
- Dommayer: The performance is *not* over.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: You call banking a career? Do you know what a career is? Well, you've heard of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven? They had what I call a career.
- Vogelhuber: Did they make money?
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: They made glorious music!
- Poldi Vogelhuber: Yes, Papa, that's right, they made glorious music.
- Vogelhuber: Yeah, yeah, I've heard their music.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Where's Miss Donner? I don't see her.
- Cellist: She'll see you when she wants to.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Kienzl, what do you love the most in the world?
- Kienzl: Huh? Well, sometimes a girl or most times goulash.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Oh, Poldi, what would I do without you?
- Poldi Vogelhuber: I don't know what you're doing with me.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Poldi, you do believe in me don't you?
- Poldi Vogelhuber: You know I do.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: I could kiss you for that.
- Poldi Vogelhuber: Yes, Schani. What?
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Poldi, you know what?
- Poldi Vogelhuber: What?
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Popofinger! Hans Popofinger! He's out of the job and he's the best double bassoon player in old Vienna!
- Cellist: [singing] I'm in love with Vienna, I'm in love with Vienna, Every sight, every sound on the street, Is sweet and dear to me, I was born in Vienna, I was born in Vienna, With a waltz in my heart, And with a heart that has to sing...
- Mrs. Vogelhuber: Is this the way to look when a young man comes to see you? You know, Poldi, sometimes it's good for a woman to make a man think about something else besides his troubles. How do you think I finally got your Papa? Keeping his mind on apple strudel?
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: And now the polka, you worms. And play as you've never played before in your life. For Vienna!
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: I thought of you ever since that night.
- Carla Donner: And you walked away: proud and angry.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Carla, I'm married.
- Carla Donner: Oh. But, you're here now, with your arms around me.
- Poldi Vogelhuber: If you want to stay out at night, you are free to do so. But, you must leave me free to worry about you, if I like. You must respect my feelings. To be the wife of Johann Strauss is not an easy thing. I have tried to be worthy of it. I am very proud of it.
- Carla Donner: Don't you see - it was meant to be like this. Everything has brought us together: the night, the woods, the music. It's all been so sweet and so dangerous.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: I'm a lucky fool, Poldi. I never knew I was this much in your heart.
- Poldi Vogelhuber: You always are.
- Count Hohenfried: She will destroy him. They will destroy each other. She's a woman of violent feelings, of strange whims, irresistible impulses.
- Carla Donner: We might as well face it. We two. He loves me and I love him. There is nothing anyone can do about it. You can't. I can't. He can't.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: [singing] One day when we were young, One wonderful morning in May, You told me you loved me, When we were young one day, Sweet songs of spring were sung, And music was never so gay...
- Poldi Vogelhuber: I wouldn't change you. Nothing of you. Not even your moods or temper; because, I know you must be like this - to be you.
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: Let's go away. It'll be better for - better for both of us - and forget we ever saw Vienna.
- Poldi Vogelhuber: Forget Vienna?
- Poldi Vogelhuber: I've been happier than most women their whole life. *Everything* comes to an end. Everything. And the world goes on, just the same. Even when we die.
- Carla Donner: Give it to me. Will you give it to me?
- Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: It has always been yours.
- Carla Donner: Don't ever pull yourself a sacrifice game. Happiness is in your own heart. Not in someone else's. I found that out.