Casanova Quotes

  • Dalfonso: You are charged with heresy. To wit: fornicating with a novice!

    Casanova: She was hardly a novice.

  • Casanova: Be the flame - not the moth.

  • Lord Papprizzio: You see that trunk over there shaped vaguely like a salami?

    Fulvio: Yes...

    Lord Papprizzio: Well, it's filled with salamis.

  • Dalfonso: Eternal damnation for one night with Casanova.

    Sister Beatrice: Seems fair.

  • Servant Girl: My Lady says the pig must stay outside, but the animal, we'll take.

  • Casanova: I've got to stay here. If I go with you they'll be looking for both of us. It's too dangerous!

    Giovanni Bruni: What if you never left?

  • Casanova: Casanova, the philosopher? Who devotes his life to the perfection of experience? Yes, I know him.

    Francesca Bruni: No, Casanova the libertine, who devotes his life to seducing women.

    Casanova: Well, we're obviously talking about the same person.

  • Casanova: I've never sought glory as a lover.

    Sister Beatrice: What then, senor Casanova, do you seek?

    Casanova: A moment that lasts a lifetime.

  • Francesca Bruni: Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me I would love him alone and forever.

  • Pucci: Heresy is what *I* say it is.

  • Andrea: This is the last time I travel coach!

  • Pucci: A massive amount of fornication can lead to confusion.

  • Pucci: Witchcraft!

    Pucci's servant: Actually, sir, it's because hot air rises, counteracting the gravitational forces of... witchcraft.

  • Casanova: What's this 'we?' You slapped him, you fight him.

  • Casanova: And what did we do that for?

    Lupo: I don't know.

  • Victoria: Bishop Pucci

    Pucci: How can I help you my dear?

    Victoria: I was a virgin. My virginity was my most cherished possession. My gift from God. My gift was taken from me.

    Pucci: Tragic and most damnable. What was the name of this vile seducer?

    Victoria: Giacomo Casanova. When Casanova came to my room and... robbed me... I fought for my honour

    Pucci: Are you saying that you would be willing to give me the testimony that I need to hang him?

    Victoria: Yes. But I would be worried about my reputation.

    Pucci: Of course. But I think we could say if everything went according to plan we could return your reputation *and* your virginity to you.

    Victoria: You could do that?

    Pucci: Oh, yes. We are the Catholic Church. We can do anything.

  • Lord Papprizzio: Oh, there you are!

  • Pucci: Yes, you are! Not!

  • Lupo: We were worried about us.

  • Lupo: Look at the state of us! Where have we been all night?

  • Casanova: Congratulations, we're getting married.

  • Casanova: What, are you two working together now?

  • Casanova: Do we have a spare sword?

    Lupo: Yea we do.

  • money collector: I want my money!

    Lupo: Next week, without fail.

    money collector: You said that last week.

    Lupo: I was a week early.

    money collector: Go to hell.

    Lupo: We'll see you there sir.

  • Casanova: No, Lupo, I'm... oh, could I have some tea?

  • Lord Papprizzio: I hope she doesn't think I'm, uhmm, I don't know, what's the word? What's the expression I'm looking for?

    Lupo: Rotund?

    Lord Papprizzio: Excuse me, what did you say?

  • Casanova: The choice of lime is very sliming.

    Lord Papprizzio: You're too kind.

  • Lord Papprizzio: I want you to transform me. Transform me.

  • Lord Papprizzio: I'm not going, I don't want to go, you can't make me!

    Casanova: Shh, shh, shh, shh.

  • Casanova: Yes, I can.

    Lord Papprizzio: Oh, God.

  • Casanova: Good God, you've achieved the impossible.

  • masked woman: Have you seen my husband?

    masked man: I am your husband.

  • Lord Papprizzio: [to Pucci] It's what I've been saying, stupid.

  • Andrea: [refering to Francesca] There's a man who's after her.

    Lord Papprizzio: Oh really, does she like him?

  • Andrea: [after seeing Francesca with Casanova] Such bad news for you, Signor Paprizzio.

    Lord Papprizzio: [silence]

    Lord Papprizzio: O! Calamaity. She's thrown me over.

    Andrea: Disgraceful.

    Lord Papprizzio: Oh, well. A scandal.

    Andrea: You're a free man now.

    Lord Papprizzio: Oh, dear. What will I do?

  • Pucci: Does your nurse enjoy executions?

    Mother's Lover: Does the Pope have a balcony?

  • Francesca Bruni: True love does not grow with the number of lovers. It wastes away.

  • Actor: Has the ice man come?

    Beautiful Masked Woman: Yes, and he comes again tomorrow!

  • Giovanni Bruni: I'm in hell.

    Francesca Bruni: I'm busy.

  • Casanova: I, too, come here to make confession.

    Francesca Bruni: What have you to confess?

    Casanova: Well, let's see. Jealousy. Pride. Covetousness. Despair. And you?

    Francesca Bruni: I came to prepare my soul for marriage.

  • Casanova: I have too long dominated the conversation. What are your thoughts on the matter?

    Francesca Bruni: What did you just say?

  • Lupo: The apple is very distracting.

  • Casanova: She has a fiance...

    Lupo: So do you.

  • Casanova: She has a secret lover? Who?

    Giovanni Bruni: I don't know, it's a secret.

  • Dalfonso: Where is Casanova?

    Sister Beatrice: I've taken a vow of si-...

  • Pucci: Let's just say... they have a hunger for religion.

  • Giovanni Bruni: You have sullied my glove! I mean, uh, my love. My love.

    Casanova: I'm sorry. What did he just called us?

    Lupo: We didn't sully it. It just came out of nowhere.

  • Pucci: Casanova bought a pig. Casanova took pig to Bruni house. Is anyone going to explain this?

  • Pucci: Aha! So we meet Casanova. I find it very hard to believe that THIS is what women want.

  • Giovanni Bruni: You've sullied my love. Victoria Donato is my fiancée.

    Casanova: Is she?

    Giovanni Bruni: Yes. In the sense that I am going to marry her.

    Casanova: Ah. Well, she never mentioned that.

    Giovanni Bruni: Of course she didn't. I haven't asked her yet.

  • Casanova: To say I love falsely is as contradictory as to say I believe falsely.

  • Lupo: We were worried about us!

    Casanova: You were right to be. We're getting married.

    Lupo: Congratulations. To whom?

    Casanova: Don't know yet.

  • Pucci: We're here to discover heresy and criminal licentiousness. If there's bacon involved, I dread to imagine the depths of depravity we're going to find here in Venice.