Venice Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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

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.

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

The quality of mercy is not strained

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

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.

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.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.