Peter O'Toole: Older Casanova

Quotes 

• Edith : That's all your reputation is, for filth!

  Older Casanova : Since when was it filth to love a woman?

  Edith : That's not love, that's sex, something quite different!

  Older Casanova : And you would know, would you?

• Edith : Is it all going to be like this?

  Older Casanova : Like what?

  Edith : Pornography.

  Older Casanova : No. Pornography's over there, second shelf on the left.

• Edith : You don't have to go into detail. I'd appreciate it if you kept it clean.

  Older Casanova : That leaves about three pages.

• Older Casanova : [writing]  Gentlemen...

  Giacomo Casanova : Gentlemen!

  Older Casanova : [writing]  I'm sure we can sort this out amicably...

  Giacomo Casanova : I'm sure we can sort this out amicably!

  Older Casanova : [writing]  Look at it this way...

  Giacomo Casanova : Look at it this way; if you could do what I could do, then you would do it too!

  Older Casanova : [writing]  But you can't.

  Giacomo Casanova : But you can't! I can, and I have, and I'll do it again! So, you should be happy for me, just a little tiny bit, don't you think? And *you*, sir, just consider; you love your wife. *I* love your wife! Aren't we both on the same side? If you think about it, I'm... I'm, um... what was it?

  Older Casanova : I'm hungry.

• Older Casanova : [to Edith]  You want sex?

  Edith : ...I beg your pardon?

  Older Casanova : If you know my reputation, then you must have expected this. Well, fine! If you want initiation, let's get on with it.

• Older Casanova : Twenty one years old. Dressed in Florentine lace and Chinese silk. Versed in Latin and Greek, French and Spanish and philosophy and science, and theology and music. A head full of facts and britches full of fire. And a heart already in love. In love with that city: The Republic of Venice.

• Edith : That's Henriette?

  Older Casanova : Oh, yes.

  Edith : They say she was beautiful.

  Older Casanova : You'll never know. Everyone in these pages are dead. I'm the only one left.