Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Rufus Sewell: Marco Venier
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Quotes
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Veronica Franco : Why, Marco Venier, I do believe you're jealous.
Marco Venier : One could only be jealous of what one cannot have.
Veronica Franco : And you cannot have me.
Marco Venier : There's not a woman in Venice I can't have.
Veronica Franco : And there's not a man in Venice that I can't have.
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Marco Venier : You must save yourself.
Veronica Franco : How?
Marco Venier : Confess... whatever foolishness they put before you...
Veronica Franco : That I am a witch?
Marco Venier : What does it matter what you say to these hypocrites?
Veronica Franco : I would be saying it.
Marco Venier : There is no honor with fools like these. God will forgive you.
Veronica Franco : Marco, if I give them my lie, I give them my soul. I'll lose everything I ever was. My love, my words, my heart.
Marco Venier : Yes, but you would live.
Veronica Franco : As someone else.
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Marco Venier : What God and greed have joined together, let no love put asunder.
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Maffio Venier : Personally, I didn't think Uncle was still capable of getting it up. What did you do to him to get him to publish this little of ditties.
Marco Venier : She worked for it.
Maffio Venier : Ha, I bet she did. How much do you cost these days Veronica?
Veronica Franco : If your prick is as limp as your verse, no price can buy time enough.
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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, though we might know his mercy.
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Marco Venier : I'm getting married Veronica. Congratulate me.
Veronica Franco : Felicitations on your grand match.
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Veronica Franco : My people are true citizens 700 years back.
Marco Venier : A coat of arms does not an inheritance make.
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Veronica Franco : You sleep with Giulia every night for duty's sake. I slept with the King of France once for duty's sake. Who does not forgive?
Marco Venier : Perhaps I just can't live with it.
Veronica Franco : But I love you.
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Veronica Franco : If I were yours alone, your property, chaste and silent, you would soon tire of me.
Marco Venier : You're wrong!
Veronica Franco : Am I?
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Veronica Franco : I think you mistake me for one of your easy court companions?
Marco Venier : No, no I mistook the asking in your eyes.
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Maffio Venier : Oh! Oh, Olivia. Oh, glorious maid, Of virtue spare, With bosoms like those, Who could care?
Marco Venier : My rod, my lady, a hand.
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Marco Venier : I think I've missed you.
Veronica Franco : With all the court ladies to amuse you?
Marco Venier : Roman women, they can't hold a candle to the Venetian. Nor can French, nor can Florentine, nor can any woman from Europe to the Levant.
Veronica Franco : No doubt you've sampled them all.
Marco Venier : All but idle amusement until you blossomed.
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Marco Venier : Save your blushes, Veronica. They don't sit well with the bluntness of your tongue.
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Veronica Franco : How could they?
Marco Venier : How could who what?
Veronica Franco : Your parents marry your sister off to that piece of decaying flesh.
Marco Venier : That piece of decaying flesh is a cousin of the doge, confidant of the pope. The Roman court adores him.
Veronica Franco : The Roman court doesn't have to sleep with him.
Marco Venier : Oh, you'd be surprised.
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Marco Venier : 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.
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Marco Venier : I think perhaps you're too young - to accept what I would - truly give you.
Veronica Franco : I am not so young as you are vain.
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Marco Venier : Marriage isn't romantic. That's why God invented poetry.
Veronica Franco : To sweeten men's lying lips!
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Maffio Venier : Venice may as well be deemed one large floating brothel.
Marco Venier : What's biting your ass this fair evening, cousin?
Maffio Venier : Um. Poverty. Always puts me in a bad mood.
Marco Venier : Can you begrudge the fairer sex their little crumbs?
Maffio Venier : No, though they do make more in a night than I a month. The lovely whores.
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Marco Venier : Scrape any lower you can have shoes for earrings.
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Marco Venier : You confuse indifference with honesty.
Veronica Franco : You confuse honesty with venality.
Marco Venier : You think me venal?
Veronica Franco : You are a venal cur.
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Marco Venier : Do you like poetry?
Giulia De Lezze : I know the Psalms.
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Marco Venier : Did you enjoy the hunt?
Veronica Franco : Well, the hunt possesses, doesn't it, such a cruel beauty?
Marco Venier : Much like your own.
Veronica Franco : Is my beauty cruel?
Marco Venier : Oh, I think so. To those that you refuse, yes.
Veronica Franco : It is only my refusal that arouses your longing.
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Marco Venier : We are a strange city, Your Holiness. Perhaps accursed. And perhaps we live in a peculiar state of grace.