Faithfulness Quote by Arthur Symons

“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.”

— Mackenzi Lee

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except…

— Lilian Whiting

“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

— Roger Ebert

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed…

— Joseph Roth

“How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.”

— Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

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

— Elle Newmark

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

— Oscar Wilde

“The title of Realist was thrust upon me just as the title of Romantic was imposed upon the men of 1830. Titles have never…

— Gustave Courbet

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the…

— Philip Kitcher

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

— Edward Abbey

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

— Stendhal