Arrested Quote by 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

“Venice invites moral surrender not with a playful wink, but with the understanding that she is and has always been, sluttish under here regal…

— Elle Newmark

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of…

— Lord Byron

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the…

— Mary McCarthy

“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland with Amory…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find -…

— F.C. Malby

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of…

— Henry James

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her…

— Friedrich Schiller

Therefore beauty is the true monument and spoil of the victory of the soul, when she with heavenly influence beareth rule over material and…

— Thomas Hoby

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.…

— Oscar Wilde

“As the face of beauty grows dim with age, so gradually the brilliancy of youth fades from the pearl and the complexion of it…

— Wallis Richard Cattelle

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

— Oscar Wilde