Venice Quotes · Page 4

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

— Del Howison

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

— Lord Byron

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

— William Shakespeare

If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

— Gino D'Acampo

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

— Nancy Gibbs

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

— Marion Davies

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

— Alexander Armstrong

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

— Lilian Whiting

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it…

— Billy Tauzin

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry…

— John Foxe

“Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]”

— Maria Grazia Swan

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial…

— Erica Jong

“I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories…

— Donna Leon

“The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters.”

— Christopher Moore

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of…

— Alexander Herzen

My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There,…

— Maneet Chauhan

Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by…

— Mark Ravenhill

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so…

— Christian Boltanski

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful…

— Nanette Lepore

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,…

— Mary McCarthy

There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else…

— Italo Calvino

Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in…

— Gordon Korman

I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the…

— Marco Polo

“Mestre. Say the word without hissing the conurbated villain, and pitying its citizens. As quickly as they can, two million tourists pass…

— Marius Brill

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that…

— Charlie Munger

I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable…

— Chase Twichell

Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as…

— Evelyn Waugh

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a…

— Cyril Connolly

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where…

— Al Pacino

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated…

— Philip Kitcher

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

— William Shakespeare

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

— William Dean Howells

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liquers at one go.”

— Truman Capote

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

— Robert Englund

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

— Peggy Guggenheim

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

— Lord Byron

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

— Robert Englund