- Nicolo Paganini: Forgive me, I'm in a bad temper.
- Jeanne de Vermond: Perhaps I could cure it.
- Nicolo Paganini, Jeanne de Vermond: I believe you could.
- Nicolo Paganini: Nicolo Paganini play in the street?
- Jeanne de Vermond: Oh, at the time there would be nobody about to hear you.
- Nicolo Paganini: No one to hear me? Musicians play to be heard, Mademoiselle.
- Nicolo Paganini: [to Count de Vemond, for whom Paganini is to play outside his jail on the street] The name is Paganini, jailbird.
- Luigi Germi: Nicolo, what's the matter? You find the laurels harder to gain than you imagined?
- Nicolo Paganini: Germi, I'm a fool.
- Luigi Germi: Good, it takes most of us a lifetime to realize that.
- Jeanne de Vermond: If I see Nicolo now, there will be more misery for all of us.
- Bianchi: What does that matter if you can give a great artist back to the world?
- Luigi Germi: I wish you'd realize that success doesn't necessarily come to those who think they deserve it.
- Luigi Germi: Nicolo, do you know anything about dueling.
- Nicolo Paganini: No, do you?
- Luigi Germi: No.
- Luigi Germi: Now listen to me. You're behaving like a spoiled child. You're a genius. You're heart has been hurt. Your mind has been hurt. All right, that's happened to many people before. Are you going to be like all the others? Are you going to sit here mopping about for the rest of your life?
- Jeanne de Vermond: Tell me, do all people who play the violin divinely have such bad tempers?
- Nicolo Paganini: Who else do you know who plays the violin divinely as I do?
- Jeanne de Vermond: Nobody, darling. Nobody.
- Cardinal: The pope has just made him a knight.
- Luigi Germi: Nicolo Paganini, a knight?
- Cardinal: Exactly!
- Luigi Germi: I must be a much better manager than I realized.
- Nicolo Paganini: Your holiness, with your permission I should now like to play a piece of music which came to me when I needed a prayer, and which is especially near to my heart.
- Pope Leo: Play my son. Your prayer may just be answered.