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Venice

«In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theater. The play is finished, but the echoes remain.»
«The surface of Venice is constantly metamorphosing [and] painting Venice is almost like being a restorer, peeling off the layers to find the picture after picture underneath.»
«Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.»
«If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is -- Venice is better.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz (Humorist, Writer) | Keywords: imagined, Venice
«Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.»
«Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.»
«A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Scotland, Venice
«The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]»
«[He] 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.»