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Giacomo Casanova Quotes

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Giacomo Casanova

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: italian
Birth: April 2, 1725 - June 4, 1798

Topics

Fool Victory Find Steel Hard Part

I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

John Banville

Live God Light Me Writing Why

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

John Tiffany

End You Know Sometimes Up Million

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

Art Space Spirit Breathing Room

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

Shirley Manson

Live People Think Feel Looks Others

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

Yourself Anger Me Comedy You Kind

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Michael Sims

Love Gossip Hunting Antique Half

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

Julia Ormond

Work Hard Work Eyes Me Help You

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Joy Mangano

Home Child Me Better Go Try

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Joseph Pulitzer

Work Hard Work Style Day Words Way

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

Jonathan Krisel

Trying Never Something Just Happens

As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.

Jonny Lee Miller

Life Opportunities Think My Life Far

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Douglas Adams

Trust Politics People Brain You Why