Venice Quotes

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.

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

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

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.

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

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

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

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

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

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

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

Now is the winter of our discontent.

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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.

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

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

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

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

All that glisters is not gold.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

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