Casanova Quotes

• I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

  Sienna Miller

  Mets

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• [Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Laughing, Judging, Advice

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• The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

  Charles Bukowski

  Easter, Children, Clever

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

  Donald Sutherland

  Stupid, Silly, Looks

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• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  Mick Jagger

  Cute, Literature, Talent

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• They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Doubt

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• I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

  Dev Patel

  Hard Work, Way, Workers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, Giving, Doe

  "Classics Revisited". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Casanova: History of My Life", p. 153, 1968.

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• I bring terror like Stephen King,
  A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

  Dr. Dre

  Kings, Rap, Black

  Song: Keep Their Heads Ringin'

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• Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

  Perry Anderson

  Impact, Criticism, Orientalism

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• I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

  Michael Steger

  Character, Acting, Montana

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