Quote by Hester Lynch Piozzi Download Open image ““Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow…And a sweet Planet it is!”” — Hester Lynch Piozzi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“My first impression of Venice was that it might be hard to make anything happen there. Everything seemed to have already happened. Venice seemed… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
“That was an amazing night in the city. But, there’s something rare and intimate about being here—just you, me, the ocean, and the moon.” — Nicole Gulla Copy Share Image
“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the events of the Mediterranean. We… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“The swans have returned and so have the dolphins to the Canals of Venice. Nature creates the most beautiful art!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Drink wine and look at the moon and think of all the civilisations the moon has seen passing by.” — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“By day it is filled with boat traffic - water buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats and it's in Venice, it moves… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The moon is jealous of you tonight. Your alluring charm and intoxicating beauty have immured me as a prisoner; I didn't even glance once… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth! — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image