Venice Quotes · Page 4

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

— Marcel Proust

This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.

— Tony Hendra

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

— George Clooney

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

— Arthur Symons

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

— Anthony Horowitz

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

— William Shakespeare

“Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow…And a sweet Planet it is!”

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry…

— John Foxe

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial…

— Erica Jong

“Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]”

— Maria Grazia Swan

“I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories…

— Donna Leon

“The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters.”

— Christopher Moore

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]”

— Maria Grazia Swan

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each…

— Frances Mayes

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,…

— Mary McCarthy

There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else…

— Italo Calvino

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

— Laura Morelli

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the…

— Norman Mailer

In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in…

— John Banville

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not…

— William Shakespeare

Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and…

— Derek Blasberg

“The way London carries on about the Thames you’d think it was a big deal, including lining it with all their classiest…

— Donald E. Westlake

I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense…

— Philip Kitcher

“Venice, ruled by a Council of Ten for 500 years, has a history of secretive government by a cosy nexus of political…

— Anonymous

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated…

— Philip Kitcher

“Portia we can admire because, having seen her leave her Earthly Paradise to do a good deed in this world (one notices,…

— W.H. Auden

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

— Jean F. Blashfield

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'…

— Niccolo Paganini

“Mestre. Say the word without hissing the conurbated villain, and pitying its citizens. As quickly as they can, two million tourists pass…

— Marius Brill

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

— Charlie Munger

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

— William Shakespeare

At Venice, there is always this sense of the world coming together for art.

— Michele Lamy

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

“Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.”

— Joe Schreiber

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

— Michele Lamy

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Luciano Vincenzoni

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

— Ayushmann Khurrana