After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit. — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were… — Anne Alexander Copy Share Image
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
…decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like,… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
“His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
![“[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.” quote by Peggy Guggenheim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/449/peggy-guggenheim-27198_break_on-venice-every-hour-of-the-day-is-a-mir_2255286.jpg)
![“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?” quote by Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/97d/mary-mccarthy-2691_clay_this-grossly-advertised-wonder-venice-th_933398.png)
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
