Quotes about Venice

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Votes: 9

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. Votes: 8

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Votes: 8

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? Votes: 8

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me. Votes: 8

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. Votes: 8

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. Votes: 8

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives. Votes: 8

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. Votes: 8

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. Votes: 8

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. Votes: 8

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. Votes: 6

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. Votes: 6

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal. Votes: 6

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls Votes: 6

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better. Votes: 6

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. Votes: 6

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden. Votes: 6

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness! Votes: 6

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon. Votes: 6

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home. Votes: 6

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else. Votes: 6

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. Votes: 6

Streets flooded. Please advise. Votes: 4

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful. Votes: 4

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. Votes: 4

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. Votes: 4

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. Votes: 4

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. Votes: 4

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner. Votes: 4

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima Votes: 4

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why. Votes: 4

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice. Votes: 4

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!' Votes: 4

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. Votes: 4

My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by the person standing behind me by my voice. I thought that was hysterical! Votes: 4

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. Votes: 4

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach. Votes: 4

...the tourist Venice is Venice. Votes: 3

In memory Venice is always magic. Votes: 3

Venice is all sea and sculpture ... Votes: 3

I shall be an Attila to Venice. Votes: 3

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ... Votes: 3

When you come to Venice, you do special work. Votes: 3

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained. Votes: 3

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny. Votes: 3

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. Votes: 3

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. Votes: 3

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' Votes: 3

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. Votes: 3

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. Votes: 3

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. Votes: 3

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address. Votes: 3

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon. Votes: 3

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu. Votes: 3

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. Votes: 3

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. Votes: 3

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. Votes: 3

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip Votes: 3

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. Votes: 3

Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. Votes: 3

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. Votes: 3

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach Votes: 3

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. Votes: 3

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. Votes: 3

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. Votes: 3

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. Votes: 3

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. Votes: 3

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. Votes: 3

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. Votes: 3

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. Votes: 3

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. Votes: 3

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. Votes: 3

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. Votes: 3

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing. Votes: 3

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. Votes: 3

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill. Votes: 3

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one. Votes: 3

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating. Votes: 3

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice. Votes: 3

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. Votes: 3

If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy. Votes: 3

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations. Votes: 3

Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown. Votes: 3

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us! Votes: 3

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you! Votes: 3

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy. Votes: 3

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' Votes: 3

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long. Votes: 3

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ... Votes: 3

Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.. Votes: 3

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints ... Votes: 3

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Votes: 3

The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot. Votes: 3

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. Votes: 3

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president. Votes: 3

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top. Votes: 3

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 there in the first place. Votes: 3

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere. Votes: 3

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners. Votes: 3

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring. Votes: 3

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 is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured. Votes: 3

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? Votes: 3

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides Votes: 3

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice. Votes: 3

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. Votes: 3

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'. Votes: 3

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there. Votes: 3

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that. Votes: 3

I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up. Votes: 3

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities. Votes: 3

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen. Votes: 3

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. Votes: 3

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice. Votes: 3

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons. Votes: 3

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 house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Votes: 3

...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes. Votes: 3

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 is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones....... Votes: 3

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her. Votes: 3

For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here." Votes: 3

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity. Votes: 3

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. Votes: 3

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 same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real. Votes: 3

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. Votes: 3

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 romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing. Votes: 3

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! Votes: 3

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before. Votes: 3

Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's--the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together. Votes: 3

Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself. Votes: 3

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution. Votes: 3

Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little. Votes: 3

Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when Cunégonde recounts her story. Votes: 3

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place. Votes: 3

To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that he crafted a superbly supple and elegant style, apparently well suited to the kind of prose Aschenbach is supposed to write. Votes: 3

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. Votes: 3

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning. Votes: 3

Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth. Votes: 3

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice. Votes: 3

Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs. Votes: 3

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense. Votes: 3

Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth. Votes: 3

Nellie grinned"I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world.""Sweet," put in Dan"Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."The au pair sighed"Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth. Votes: 3

Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup. Votes: 3

When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies. Votes: 3

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him. Votes: 2

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years. Votes: 2