Venice Quotes
123 quotes by 107 authors
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
— Truman Capote
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
— William Shakespeare
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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it…
— Charlie Munger
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On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I…
— Niccolo Paganini
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Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's--the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to…
— Jessica Chastain
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If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth…
— Werner Herzog
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I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach
— Amber Tamblyn
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A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once…
— Lisa Bonet
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There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls…
— Richard Kadrey
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Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as…
— Marco Polo
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I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
— Arthur Symons
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I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.
— Billy Boyd
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken…
— Kató Lomb
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