Venice Quotes
123 Venice quotes by 106 unique authors
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This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a…
— Mary McCarthy
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Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who…
— Mary McCarthy
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I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the…
— Jean Nouvel
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The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle…
— George Saunders
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Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous…
— Dave Barry
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I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
— Robert Englund
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I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a…
— Ethan Hawke
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I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and…
— Ben Savage
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If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
— Susan Downey
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I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in…
— Al Seckel
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
— Tanith Lee
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When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in…
— Giorgio Vasari
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It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be…
— Giorgio Vasari
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I shall be an Attila to Venice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row…
— John Carlos Frey
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
— Roger Ebert
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I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.
— Denis Leary
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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
— Jerry Saltz
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I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning…
— Evelyn Waugh
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In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our…
— Veronica Franco
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Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak…
— Italo Calvino
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That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to…
— Anne Carson
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