Leonardo da Vinci quotes from Da Vinci's Demons

Leonardo

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

Leonardo

This is how history will remember you. Lies, truth, it's irrelevant. The best story wins.

Leonardo

Ave, Vladislaus Dracul Filius, vaivoda partium Transalpinarum. Prince of Transylvania and Wallachia, son of Vlad II known as Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Dragon, which makes you Vlad III, Son of the Dragon, or as it is known in your language: Dracula.

Leonardo

[To Sixtus IV] You press for my devotion. It's only to place me here as another relic in this tomb that you've constructed.

Leonardo

To be haunted by your mistakes, Nico, that's a fate far worse than death.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Leonardo

At worst, it speaks of political chicanery to question anyone's intimate relations in this manner, 'cos I have nothing to be ashamed of and I have nothing to defend.

Vanessa

I can vouch for that. They should put me on the stand.

Hearing how he deflowered a nun won't help.

And have you given the same amount of thought to what would happen if it doesn't work?

Leonardo

None whatsoever.

Leonardo

You two can go on. I feel like I could sleep for the next week.

As could I.

Leonardo

That's because we've all been poisoned.

What?!

Leonardo

Drink some antidote.

That bastard he slipped something in our drinks?!

Leonardo

No. I did.

I must tell you of the key you seek.

Leonardo

The other key that opens the Vault of Heaven?

It's waiting in Rome, there for your taking and when you have both keys...Your mother, Caterina, she is alive. She carries the Book of Leaves for us, beneath the hitching post of the sun in a town made of stone, in the land on my map.