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
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
Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The swans have returned and so have the dolphins to the Canals of Venice. Nature creates the most beautiful art!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still… — Susan Downey Copy Share Image
I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much - it's… — Limahl Copy Share Image
“Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]” — Maria Grazia Swan Copy Share Image
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I want to move back to the East Coast. I like Venice, but L.A. is ugly. I would kill myself if I… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art,… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by… — Erica Cerra Copy Share Image
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“Whilst in the process of losing all his money, Cardano noticed that his opponent had marked the cards. Whereupon he leapt up,… — Paul Strathern Copy Share Image
“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one… — Laura Morelli Copy Share Image
Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in… — Erro Copy Share Image
There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“By day it is filled with boat traffic - water buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats and it's in Venice,… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“In winter you wake up in this city, especially on Sundays, to the chiming of its innumerable bells, as though behind your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image