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“Venice was luscious. She had real curves and real cleavage. She had a stunning face, set off by a broad, lascivious grin. She had…

— Paul Rudnick

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Oscar Wilde

“You're considerate and funny and you're a lover out of my dreams. Should I develop a taste for luxuries- which I may well do…

— Anna Campbell

“I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic…

— Loretta Chase

“You might think you’re the villain in my story, Lux, but what you don’t seem to realize is that I don’t care . Princess…

— Julie Johnson

“Still, when your truthful eyes, your keen, attentive stare, endow the vacuous slut with royalty, when you match her soul to her shimmering hair,…

— Lisel Mueller

“Despite masks and fancy dress I couldn't lose myself for one instant in all this exuberance. You have to be an Italian, lighthearted and…

— Hella S. Haasse

“something so regal and linear about her.”

— Lauren Graham

“Decorative gestures add romance to a life.”

— Don DeLillo

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray