Quote

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Giacomo Casanova

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Giacomo Casanova
Age: 73 †
Born: 1725
Born: January 1
Died: 1798
Died: January 1
Adventurer
Author
Autobiographer
Banker
Diplomat
Librarian
Novelist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Venice
Italy
Casanova
Kazanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova di Seingalt
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt
ג'אקומו קאזאנובה
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Jacques Casanova
Dzhiakomo Kasanova
Джакомо Казанова
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt
Believable
Told
Possible
Story
Stories

More quotes by Giacomo Casanova

Image
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
Giacomo Casanova
Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
They are the follies inherent to youth I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
Those who do not love life do not deserve it.
Giacomo Casanova
Image
I don't conquer, I submit.
Giacomo Casanova