“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“You know, Guido, at times I find it difficult to believe you do the sort of work you do. (Medical examiner's view… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
“Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense… — Andrei Codrescu 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
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
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
The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a… — Giorgio Vasari 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
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on… — Lilian Whiting 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 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
“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
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
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it… — Billy Tauzin 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
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and… — Jan Morris 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
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave… — Ben van Berkel 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
“His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image