Venice Quotes

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

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

[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.

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 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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

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

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.

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

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!

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 . . .

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.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

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

The quality of mercy is not strained

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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

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