Da Vinci's Demons quotes

I am a son of Earth and Starry Heaven. I am thirsty. Please give me something to drink from the fountain of Memory.

You have heard the phrase "time is a river"? What most fail to grasp is that the river is circular. One man's death opens the doorway to the birth of the next.

Lorenzo

I'm also told that you are a trouble-maker, you are arrogant, impolitic, and utterly incapable of keeping your opinions to yourself.

Leonardo

Arrogance implies that I exaggerate my own worth. I don't.

If man were meant to fly...

Leonardo

...he would have been born with wings, yes. But a similar assertion could have been made prior to the invention of gunpowder. Or the wheel. Or any other invention conceived since the fire. I believe man will fly. And I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.

Lorenzo

A clockwork loses its luster once one glimpses the gears beneath its face.

Shouldn't you be working on Lorenzo's musket?

Leonardo

Well, unlike you, father, I'm actually capable of doing two things at the same time.

Drinking and digging your own grave?

His Magnificence thought it wise to bring a military strategist to the demonstration. In order to better evaluate your work.

Lorenzo

I wish I'd brought a boat.

Leonardo

If I dropped everything every time one of you decided to pursue some ill-conceived and asinine flight of fancy, I would never get anything done!

Well I'll remember that the next time you decide to strap me or Vanessa into your glider wings.

Lorenzo

My brother saw one mad nun and thinks the Devil is at large in Florence.

Giuliano

Attend to your guns, Da Vinci. I've been tasked to handle this matter...

Leonardo

And you're doing an admirable job. I hear you actually slaughtered one of the poor Sisters on the way in.

Giuliano

It was an accident.

Leonardo

Incompetence often is.

Giuliano

When you start licking paintings I think it's time to accept that the devil is here.

Lucrezia

Clarice, I know you love him, how can you even stand to look at me?

Because I know you will never be up on that wall.

Giuliano

[To Lorenzo] I think I have a cat in my bag. Would you like to kick that, too?

Leonardo

[To Dragonetti] Il Capitano. I didn't take you for a religious zealot. A bully and an arse-hole, yes..a zealot?

Lorenzo

Leonardo! Leonardo! Leonaa...Oh so you have the gall to remain in Florence. You're either brave or unimaginably stupid.

Leonardo

It's a bit of both.