Disagreeable Quote by Henry James

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

— Fran Lebowitz

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

— Madame de Stael

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

Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit.

— Gino D'Acampo

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

— Christopher Moore

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want…

— Will Arnett

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

— Stacy Martin

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really…

— Anne Alexander

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

— Ulysses S. Grant

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski