Canals Quote by Mary McCarthy

“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one of Master…

— Laura Morelli

“Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.”

— Joe Schreiber

“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates…

— Gary Inbinder

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

— Mackenzi Lee

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while…

— Mary McCarthy

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except…

— Lilian Whiting

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

— Erica Jong

“The city's canals outnumber those in Venice,”

— Lonely Planet

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming…

— Chase Twichell

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our…

— Erica Jong

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

— Sylvia Pankhurst

“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades, bridges, statues.…

— Joseph Brodsky