Quotes About Venice Italy

#1. Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#2. 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

#3. Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

Ed McMahon

#4. 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

#5. Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.

Andrei Codrescu

#6. My favourite setting is Italy, specifically Venice, because it is there that I met my husband, who is Venetian. I used it as the setting for Virtue and Vice, Enchantment in Venice, and Seduced by Innocence. Apart from Venice, my favourite city is Rome.

Lucy Gordon

#7. What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

Eve Arnold

#8. All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Marty Rubin

#9. 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

#10. The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.

Sadhguru

#11. 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

#12. In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#13. 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

#14. Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

Auliq Ice

#15. And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Donna Leon

#16. Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca.

Karynne Summars

#18. He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't.

Frances Mayes

#19. Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

George MacDonald

#21. You'll betray me then I'll forgive you again.

Toba Beta

#22. In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

Beatrice Lillie

#23. Christianity is founded on, and grounded in, a cross - not a ladder.

Tullian Tchividjian

#24. I've met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In closing, I guess what I would like to say is to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much and I can't wait to be your husband.

George Clooney

#25. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

#26. Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Maria Grazia Swan

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

Lord Byron

#28. I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Clint Eastwood

#29. Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Maria Grazia Swan