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
“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
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
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. — Tom Hayden 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
I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance,… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice… — George Saunders 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 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
…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
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
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
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship,… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman,… — Alexander Lernet-Holenia Copy Share Image
There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
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