- 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.
- Grimani: How can the church maintain its authority when the language itself is beyond reason? For example; in the Latin, can anyone explain to me why the word for vagina is masculine and the word for penis feminine, he had no answer.
- Giacomo Casanova: Well I suppose you could say it's because the slave always takes its name from the master.
- Henriette: If you're going to pretend in this city then you only have to remember one thing; they're all pretending - high born, low born, the people in between, everyone's wishing they were someone else. All you have to do is lie with conviction.
- 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.
- Giacomo Casanova: I'm a spy.
- Grimani: How d'you mean a spy?
- Giacomo Casanova: A spy. I spy. That's me, the spy. Of course, being a spy I really shouldn't say I'm a spy or I'm spied by a spy.
- Grimani: I suppose you can prove it?
- Giacomo Casanova: What? You want me to spy on something? Um, look, there's a canal, I spied it. Look, it's still there. Ooh, and again.
- Rocco: Its all bollocks that stuff.
- Giacomo Casanova: Ah, but since you were born under the sign of a ram, with you're tangent in the ascendant, I knew you were going to say that.
- Rocco: Very funny.
- Giacomo Casanova: And that.
- Rocco: You can't just...
- Giacomo Casanova: And that.
- Rocco: Don't you...
- Giacomo Casanova: And that.
- Rocco: It's not...
- Giacomo Casanova: And.
- Rocco: If you...
- Giacomo Casanova: And!...
- Henriette: Quite the gentleman.
- Giacomo Casanova: Quite the lady.
- Henriette: Quite bored of this. Goodbye.
- Landlord: That smell's the tannery; God help you in summer. If there's one good thing, the rats can't climb this high, but the water can - that roof hasn't got long.
- Giacomo Casanova: You're not exactly selling it.
- Angela Tosello: I find all forms of theatre vulgar.
- Giacomo Casanova: Yes, absolutely, good point. Even puppet shows?
- 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.
- Grimani: ...Who the hell are you?
- Giacomo Casanova: Right! Yes! Hello! Giacomo Casanova! Nice to meet you. Hello.
- Grimani: Giacomo Casanova of...?
- Giacomo Casanova: ...of...?... the Casanova family. Obviously.
- [grins and snorts]
- Grimani: And that would be Mr and Mrs Casanova and all the little Casanovas?
- Giacomo Casanova: That's me, yes! Nice to meet you. I've said that, haven't I? Still. Still true.
- [smile]
- Grimani: ...It's very good to meet a man of learning, Giacomo. And you, more than anyone, will appreciate the delicacy in the precise latin; manus, the hand...
- [holds up his right hand]
- Grimani: Pudnas, the fist...
- [clenches hand]
- Grimani: and percutio... to punch!
- [punches Giacomo in the face]
- Giacomo Casanova: Oof!
- [falls over]
- Grimani: Nice indeed to meet you, peasant. Now, fetch me some wine.
- 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.
- Giacomo Casanova: Excuse me, but I haven't actually been introduced to the Lady.
- Grimani: Henriette. Henriette Marianne Del Bitasse. My fiancé.
- Giacomo Casanova: How you reach those notes in the upper fifth, with perfect... Oh, go on. You're a girl, are you? Go on, you can tell me.
- Bellino: I'll take that as a compliment on my voice, Sir.
- Giacomo Casanova: Oh... but you're a girl.
- Bellino: I was inspected by the bishop.
- Giacomo Casanova: Yeah, well. The bishop's been celibate for 53 years. He wouldn't know the difference.