Venice Quotes - Page 4

• Do all men kill the things they do not love?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Merchant Of Venice, Killing

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hair, White

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Villain, Term

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cat, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

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• The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Fruit, Kind, Merchants

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 114

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Shylock, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (1859). “Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays”

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Fancy

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Shylock, Vices

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Mistress, Likes

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Power, Unemployment

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Glasses, Mirrors, Self

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

  Lilian Whiting

  Dream, Art, Romance

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Cities, Water, Gondolas

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• I shall be an Attila to Venice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History

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• this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

  Mary McCarthy

  Growing Up, Lying, Sleep

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.

  Veronica Franco

  Blessed, Men, Cities

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• Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, Cities, Water

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

  Cornelia Funke

  Running, Hair, Blonde

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• Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Littles

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• First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.

  Philip Kitcher

  Odds, Community, Plight

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Nice, Lying

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Cities, Joy, Fantasy

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

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Sunset, Reflection, Rivals

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