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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. -- Roger Ebert
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. -- Truman Capote
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? -- William Dean Howells
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me. -- Frances Mayes
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. -- Frida Giannini
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. -- Henry James
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. -- Arthur Symons
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives. -- Roger Moore
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. -- Nile Rodgers
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. -- Elizabeth Berkley
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. -- Nanette Lepore
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. -- Penelope Gilliatt
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. -- Robert Englund
To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal. -- Lilian Whiting
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better. -- Fran Lebowitz
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. -- Lord Byron
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. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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! -- Lord Byron
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. -- Mary McCarthy
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. -- Henry Van Dyke
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. -- Peggy Guggenheim
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. -- William Shakespeare
Streets flooded. Please advise. -- Robert Benchley
Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful. -- Christopher Moore
Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. -- Pontus Hulten
Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. -- Nancy Gibbs
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Ben Savage
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 -- Jan Morris
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. -- Alan Furst
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. -- Matteo Renzi
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!' -- Bill Hader
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. -- James Weldon Johnson
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! -- Erica Cerra
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. -- Donna Leon
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. -- Jessica Chastain
...the tourist Venice is Venice. -- Mary McCarthy
In memory Venice is always magic. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Venice is all sea and sculpture ... -- Vera Brittain
I shall be an Attila to Venice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ... -- Madame de Stael
When you come to Venice, you do special work. -- Bruce Paltrow
Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny. -- Anthony Horowitz
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. -- Liam Neeson
Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride. -- George Clooney
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. -- Tanith Lee
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. -- Douglas Coupland
Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. -- Robert Englund
When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address. -- Marcel Proust
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon. -- Ray Bradbury
You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu. -- Del Howison
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. -- Lord Byron
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. -- Arthur Symons
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip -- William Shakespeare
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. -- Mary Norris
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. -- Peggy Guggenheim
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach -- Amber Tamblyn
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. -- Amber Tamblyn
Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. -- Mary McCarthy
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. -- Tom Hayden
I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. -- Denis Leary
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. -- Marion Davies
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. -- George William Curtis
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. -- Eleanor Coppola
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. -- Billy Tauzin
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. -- Erica Jong
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. -- David A. R. White
The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. -- Daphne du Maurier
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. -- Billy Boyd
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. -- Missy Peregrym
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating. -- Lilian Whiting
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. -- Gore Vidal
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. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
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. -- Susan Downey
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. -- Philip Kitcher
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. -- John Carlos Frey
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! -- Cornelia Funke
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! -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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. -- Ray Bradbury
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.' -- Billy Boyd
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. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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 ... -- Lilian Whiting
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.. -- Dave Barry
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 ... -- Erica Jong
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. -- Evelyn Waugh
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. -- Jesse L. Martin
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. -- James Gray
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. -- John Cusack
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. -- Jesse Helms
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. -- Anne Alexander
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. -- Patricia Highsmith
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. -- Mary McCarthy
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. -- Erica Jong
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. -- Will Arnett
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? -- Mary McCarthy
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 -- Quentin Crisp
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. -- Quentin Crisp
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. -- Alan Watts
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'. -- Felicity Kendal
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. -- Frances Mayes
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. -- Diogo Mainardi
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. -- Richard Branson
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. -- Erica Jong
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. -- Stephen Kinzer
[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. -- Peggy Guggenheim
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. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. -- John Foxe
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. -- Jan Morris
...... 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. -- Sara Davidson
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....... -- Fritz Leiber
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. -- Mary McCarthy
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." -- Robert Knepper

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