Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Barbet Schroeder

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

William Shakespeare

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

Jan Morris

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

Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

Bruce Paltrow

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

Arthur Symons

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

Anais Nin

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

Common

All that glisters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn;...

William Shakespeare

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Gore Vidal

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.

Frances Mayes

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Camryn Manheim

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

Madame de Stael

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...

Mary McCarthy

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

Giorgio Vasari

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.

Ray Bradbury

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

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them....

John Ruskin

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Lord Byron

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

Tanith Lee

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

Vera Brittain

Venice is all sea and sculpture ...

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Roger Moore

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

Roger Ebert

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