Venice Quotes

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. — Truman Capote
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
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach — Amber Tamblyn
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
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
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
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells
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
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
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
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
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons
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
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… — KatÃ³ Lomb
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted… — Bernard DeVoto
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two… — William Shakespeare
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me. — Frances Mayes
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter,… — John Foxe
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of… — Chase Twichell

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