Marco Venier quotes from Dangerous Beauty (1998)

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.

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

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!

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?