Venice Quotes · Page 7

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“ The Venetian Republic Venice, the island city, did not exist during the height of the Roman Empire. But by 1100, it…

— Jean F. Blashfield

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

— Ulysses S. Grant

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

— Bruce Paltrow

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

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

— Frances Mayes

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

— Truman Capote

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

— Barbet Schroeder

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

— Liam Neeson

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Eleanor Coppola

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

— William Shakespeare

When I went to Europe for the first time, I went to Paris and then to Venice. So after Paris, Venice was…

— James Ivory

Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't…

— Jack Smith

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

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

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

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this…

— Jerry Saltz

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat…

— William Shakespeare

Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice…

— John Carlos Frey

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

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

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the…

— Lord Byron

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last…

— Kaya Scodelario

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

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

— Charlie Munger

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 am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die…

— William Shakespeare

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Chrystia Freeland

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

— Alexander Armstrong

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Lord Byron

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Luka Doncic

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

— Ron Mael