Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Truman Capote
Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
Lord Byron
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James
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 (telegram from Venice to his editor)
In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain. Arbit Blatas