Venice Quotes

123 Venice quotes by 106 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. — Robert Englund
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
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
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
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
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. — Tanith Lee
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
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
I shall be an Attila to Venice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. — Roger Ebert
I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. — Denis Leary
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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