Beast Quote by Mary McCarthy

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power… It…

— Fritz Leiber

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

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

— Christopher Moore

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the…

— Jan Morris

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it…

— Will Arnett

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

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Mackenzi Lee

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make…

— Erica Jong

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

— Frida Giannini

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

— Lilian Whiting