Other Titles • Dangerous Beauty • The Honest Courtesan (1996) • Courtesan • A Destiny of Her Own • Venice (1996)
Quotes from Dangerous Beauty (1998)
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Beatrice Venier: Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her today? "In a girl's voice lies temptation - a known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body." She doesn't believe it yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence.
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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.
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Marco Venier: I'm getting married Veronica. Congratulate me. Veronica Franco: Felicitations on your grand match.
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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.
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Maffio Venier: It must be interesting to be in a room full of men, most of whom you've seen with their pants down. Veronica Franco: Puts it all in some kind of perspective.
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Paola Franco: Desire begins in the mind.
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Paola Franco: It's the wanting that keeps us alive.
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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.
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Marco Venier: What God and greed have joined together, let no love put asunder.
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Veronica Franco: [while tending to the "needs" of another client, a beautiful peacock bursts into the room followed by Veronica's mother and a maid. There is a note tied to the bird's neck that reads 'All the best courtesans have one.' Veronica plucks one of the tail feathers from the bird, runs to her terrace and sees Marco Venier in a boat beneath her window. He is anticipating a positive response to his gift] A peacock does not an inheritance make. [She drops the feather into the canal]
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Marco Venier: [Marco has just told Veronica that it will be impossible for them to ever marry due to his duty to state and family] My family's bloodline traces farther back than most aristocrats in this city. Veronica Franco: A coat of arms does not an inheritance make.
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