Cities Quote by Peggy Guggenheim

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird…

— Rick Steves

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

— Mary McCarthy

New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to…

— Carol Kane

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give…

— Eve Ensler

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

— Alice Eve

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments…

— Kazuo Koike

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is…

— Bryan Adams

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with…

— Peggy Guggenheim

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even…

— Peggy Guggenheim

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic…

— Peggy Guggenheim

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

— Henry James