Venice Quotes

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

— William Shakespeare

“Getting lost is the only place worth going to.”

— Tiziano Scarpa

“The city's canals outnumber those in Venice,”

— Lonely Planet

“All's well that ends well.”

— Anonymous

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

— William Shakespeare

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

— John Ruskin

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

— William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold.

— Common

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

— William Shakespeare

If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

— Gino D'Acampo

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

— Nancy Gibbs

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

— Marion Davies

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

— William Dean Howells

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

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

— Lilian Whiting

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 invites moral surrender not with a playful wink, but with the understanding that she is and has always been, sluttish under…

— Elle Newmark

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— William Shakespeare

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of…

— Hilda Doolittle

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach,…

— Robert Knepper

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

— Eleanor Coppola

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

As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in…

— Philip Kitcher

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein…

— Walter Savage Landor

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

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed…

— Chris Burden

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically…

— Philip Kitcher

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice…

— Evelyn Waugh

Do all men kill the things they do not love …… The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the…

— William Shakespeare

“In winter you wake up in this city, especially on Sundays, to the chiming of its innumerable bells, as though behind your…

— Joseph Brodsky

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys…

— Erica Jong

“I've always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there.…

— Tad Williams

“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than…

— Henry James

“It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard…

— Marina Fiorato

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We…

— Nicholas Rodger

“She leaned against the bridge’s warm marble balustrade, and looked as far down the darkening canal as the setting sun would allow.…

— Marie Ohanesian Nardin

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the…

— John Ruskin