Quotes on Venice

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

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

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

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

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