Venice Quotes · Page 10

....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

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

“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one…

— Laura Morelli

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

— Chrystia Freeland

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

— Frances Mayes

I was at Venice Beach for... what was the serial there, 'Baywatch?' And it was amazing.

— Luka Doncic

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

— William Shakespeare

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.

— Ron Mael

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

— John Ruskin

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

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them....

— Ray Bradbury

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both…

— James Gray

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It…

— Mary McCarthy

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is…

— Will Arnett

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

— William Shakespeare

If it was not for this Rick Owens, I would still be in Venice, California.

— Michele Lamy

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

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Lord Byron

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

— Eleanor Coppola

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But…

— Ethan Hawke

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very…

— Philip Kitcher

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

— George Clooney

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in…

— Erro

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his…

— Stephen Kinzer