Domenico Venier: If I didn't know you better I'd think you have the feigned indifference of a man in love. Go on son. Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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.
Grand Inquisitor: I leave this woman to Venice, which richly deserves her.
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.
Veronica Franco: Recant the curse you give my kind. Admit I have, as you, a heart and mind.
Maffio Venier: A greedy hand, an empty heart is all that wrests your legs apart.
Veronica Franco: My people are true citizens 700 years back.
Marco Venier: A coat of arms does not an inheritance make.
Maffio Venier: May sing... and rhyme... and more. Still... is at best a slut... with every horny mutt! You pride yourself on arts and letters, and fucking best your manly betters.
Veronica Franco: I save the goodly wives of Venice from their husbands' lustful menace.
Paola Franco: Courtesans, my dear, are the most educated women in the world.
Marco Venier: What God and greed have joined together, let no love put asunder.
Paola Franco: Desire begins in the mind.
Veronica Franco: You... all of you... you who hunger so for what I give, but cannot bear to see such power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift... ourselves, our yearning, our need to love... you call it filth and sin and heresy.
