It would be better to see the turban of the Turks reigning in the center of the City than the Latin miter.

Reported in Doukas, Historia Turco-Byzantina, ch. 37, sect. 10; Harry Magoulias, Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1975) p. 210. The attribution is probably wrong; see Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571, Vol. 2: The Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1978) pp. 104–105, esp. note 91

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 6 (1782; ed. H. H. Milman, 1845) ch. 68: "The Latins were the most odious of heretics and infidels; and the first minister of the empire, the great duke, was heard to declare, that he had rather behold in Constantinople the turban of Mahomet, than the pope’s tiara or a cardinal’s hat."