Venice in Quotes and Photos
Autumn in Venice is one of air and light. Filigree mists begin to finger their way through every available space. Thick blindfolds of fog tease and decoy. The pigeon-back hues of grey and mauve take over, first alighting on, and then obliterating the burgundy leaves of the Virginia creepers. – Lisa St Aubin de Teran
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, the only place where you can get seasick by crossing the street. – Anonymous
This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty-this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism. – Thomas Mann
Streets flooded. Please advise. – Robert Benchley in a telegram from Venice to his editor
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. – Erica Jong
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. – Alexander Herzen
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you’ve imagined. Venice is. Venice is better. – Fran Lebowitz
Venice, a city so great it celebrates the theft of human remains from Alexandria. – Ed H
Smile and be happy. You are in Venice. – Anonymous
