Dangerous Beauty Quotes

Maffio Venier It must be interesting to be in a room full of men, most of whom you've seen with their pants down.

Veronica Franco Puts it all in some kind of perspective.

Paola Franco Desire begins in the mind. Cleopatra, Theodocia, she could seduce a man at twenty paces, without revealing an inch of flesh.

Marco Venier Do you not like my kiss?

Veronica Franco I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

Marco Venier God made sin that we might know his mercy.

Marco Venier Veronica! Veronica! Veronica, my little poetesse. You’re the brightest star in the Venetian firn’ment - the coldest and yet the brightest. Veronica - my uncle tells me I have the feigned indifference of a man (a pause when Veronica's patron walks out behind her) about to be married. I’m getting married Veronica congratulate me.

Veronica Franco Felicitations on your grand match!

Marco Venier Ah - Generously put -

Veronica Franco Do you love her?

Marco Venier Do I have to?

Marco Venier I see my fated stars your eyes, they melt me as the sun does snow. I bought this in Rome - for you.

Veronica Franco You didn't buy it for me.

Marco Venier Yes, I did, I just didn't know it.

Veronica Franco Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

Marco Venier Then name me any other gift.

Veronica Franco The book will do for now.

Marco Venier I think you're perhaps too young to accept what I would truly give you.

Veronica Franco I'm not so young as you are vain!

Domenico If I didn't know you better I'd think you have the feigned indifference of a man in love. Go on son. Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Beatrice Venier Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence.

Paola Franco It's the wanting that keeps us alive.

Veronica Franco There's not a man in Venice I can't have.

Marco Venier And there's not a woman in Venice I can't have.

Veronica Franco You cannot have me.