Wasn't it: crying all the way to the bank?
Could be. I’m going by memory. Either way, that was his retort to his critics.
The critics had a field day with his gimmicky act, his showy but careful piano playing, his non-stop promotions, and his gaudy display of success, but he always had the last laugh, as preserved by the famous quotation, first recorded in a letter to a critic, "Thank you for your very amusing review. After reading it, in fact, my brother George and I laughed all the way to the bank".[27] He used a similar response to subsequent poor reviews, famously modifying it to "I cried all the way to the bank."[28] In an appearance on The Tonight Show some years later, Liberace re-ran the anecdote to Johnny Carson, and finished it by saying, "I don't cry all the way to the bank any more – I bought the bank!"