140+ Best Venice Quotes and Venice Instagram Captions

Best Venice Quotes

“If I were to look for a word that replaces “music” I could only think of Venice.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The black, slender gondola and the way it moves, lightly, without any noise, has something strange, a dreamlike beauty, and is an integral part of the city of leisure, love, and music.” ― Hermann Hesse

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” ― Truman Capote

“I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food, and pure romance in the air is like no other place.” ― Elizabeth Berkley

“Venice; flattering and ambiguous beauty – fairy tale and at the same time a trap for strangers.” ― Thomas Mann

“Venice! Is there a city more admired, more celebrated, more sung by poets, more desired by lovers, more visited, and more illustrious? Venice! Is there a name in human languages ​​that has made you dream more than this?” ― Guy de Maupassant

“A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.” ― Arthur Symons

“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.” ― Frida Giannini

“Venice is personal, intimate, close and at the same time distant, mysterious, exotic. It is one of the forms of dreams and elsewhere.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.” ― Jerry Saltz

Unique Venice Instagram Captions

“Lost in the labyrinth of Venice’s canals.”

“Venice: where every corner tells a story.”

“Strolling through Venice’s timeless streets”

“Venice vibes: Gondolas and gelato.”

“Venice: a city of dreams floating on water.”

“Sunset serenades in Venice.”

“Getting lost in Venice’s magical alleys.”

“Venice’s whispers of history echo through its streets.”

“Cobblestone paths lead to hidden wonders in Venice.”

“In Venice, romance floats along the waterways.”

More Venice Instagram Captions

“Venice’s charm lies in its effortless elegance.”

“Venice’s bridges connect hearts across its canals.”

“Wandering through Venice is like stepping into a painting.”

“Venice’s enchanting melodies linger in the air.”

“Every corner of Venice holds a story waiting to be told.”

“Gondoliers serenade lovers along Venice’s waterways.”

“Lost in Venice’s maze, finding beauty at every turn.”

“Savoring the flavors of Venice, one bite at a time.”

“Gondolas glide gracefully through Venice’s waterways.”

“Venice’s beauty is an ode to human ingenuity and artistry.”

Funny Venice Puns

“Venice: where even the streets are ‘canal’-ing for attention!”

“Gondola-ing with the flow in Venice!”

“Feeling ‘Venice-ated’ by all the beauty around!”

“Feeling ‘ship-faced’ in Venice’s waters!”

“Venice is ‘canal’-ing all my attention!”

“Venice is the ‘tide’ of my life!”

“Venice is ‘dock’-full of surprises!”

“Venice is a ‘shore’ bet for an unforgettable vacation.”

“I’m ‘gondola’ enjoy every moment in Venice!”

“Venice has me ‘water’-ing at the mouth for more.”

More Venice Puns for Instagram Captions

“Feeling ‘piazza’-ful in Venice’s lively squares.”

“Venice’s charm is ‘gondola’-rious!”

“I’m ‘floating’ on cloud nine in Venice.”

“Venice has me ‘channel’-ing my inner explorer.”

“Venice is ‘un-BRIDGE-tably’ beautiful.”

“I’m ‘canal-ized’ by Venice’s magic.”

“Venice is ‘starry’ eyed and ‘canal’-tastic.”

“Let’s ‘bridge’ the gap to more adventures in Venice.”

“Venice’s charm is ‘gondola’-rific!”

“I’m ‘sea’-riously in love with Venice!”

Short Quotes about Venice

“Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magical to me.” ― Frances Mayes

“Venice is eternity itself.” Joseph Brodsky

“There are many-faced Atlantis. But only one of them wears the mask of Venice.” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

“Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.” ― Roger Ebert

“Venetian painting is essentially color.” ― Eugenio From Venice

“Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I’ve been lucky enough to visit twice.” ― Rosecrans Baldwin

“Venice is like a woman. Everything that is said about her will be true.” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

“In Venice, when the moon is out, it’s like walking through an etching.” ― Carlo Dossi

“Venice is an open-air theater: full of grace, mystery, art, and history.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

“The heart of Venice is Piazza San Marco. But what is his head?” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

Inspirational Venice Quotes

“Close your eyes while walking: listen to the babel of the languages ​​of tourists from all over the world concentrated along fifty meters of calle.” ― Tiziano Scarpa

“Venice is a city so different from what is defined as “modern”, but also so different from what is defined as “ancient”. Venice is not medieval or Renaissance. Venice lives in an era all its own.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

“Arranged like this on both sides of the canal, the houses made one think of natural places, but of a nature that had created its works with a human image.” ― Marcel Proust

“I was in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; a palace on one side, a prison on the other; I saw his profile emerge from the water as if at the touch of a magician’s wand.” ― Lord Byron

“Venice is a city that goes on foot. A mental habit leads us to believe that Venetians mostly travel by boat. Instead, the most used means of locomotion is the most human, the legs.” ― Guido Piovene

“The vertical lace of the Venetian facades is the most beautiful design that time-aka-water has left on land, anywhere on the globe.” ― Iosif Brodskij

“Close your eyes and read with your fingers the physiognomy of the statues, the bas-reliefs, the grooved moldings. The alphabets are carved into the headstones at eye level. Venice is an uninterrupted Braille handrail.” ― Tiziano Scarpa

“Sometimes sailing ships arrive on the shore of San Marco, carrying the winds of other worlds in their sails.” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

“Venice has always existed as you see it, or almost. It has been sailing since the dawn of time: it has touched all the ports, it has brushed against all the shores.” ― Tiziano Scarpa

“But when we emerged, tired and dazed, from the Venice station and saw the Grand Canal and the marble buildings that skimmed the muddy water, that jewel of culture that rocked on the fetid and moldy canals, we suddenly understood how strong and tenacious it is man and how wonderful his spirit is, and such a love for humanity has awakened in us, humanity with its sufferings and its epidemics; and we entered a dream with our eyes open, because Venice is the dream of every city…” ― Abraham Yehoshua

“Romantic, imperfect, mysterious, magnetic, fascinating, elegant, sinuous. Venice is like a woman who falls in love with you.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

Quotes about Life in Venice

“I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar – and I hope that continues.” ― Lela Loren

“Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don’t really want to live in it.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much – it’s such a great walking city.” ― Limahl

“Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps and I love the feeling of it slowing down.” ― Stacy Martin

“Living in Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow….And a sweet Planet it is!” ― Hester Lynch Piozzi

“If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can’t turn your head without seeing something amazing.” ― Nile Rodgers

“Venice is a place more similar to an entire world than to a city.” ― Aldus Manutius

“I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.” ― Donna Leon

“There is nothing that has affected me in my life like Venice. It’s the wonder of the world. A damn ancient dream place, gorgeous, immaterial, impossible, perverse, unreal. I arrived there in the evening, and the feeling of that evening and the bright morning that followed is now part of me for the rest of my existence.” ― Charles Dickens

“A miracle that is not made for sleepyheads: the dawn rising from the sea foam, shapely like the divine Venus.” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

Venice Travel Quotes

“If you want to go for a romantic break or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.” ― Gino D’Acampo

“My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.” ― Ben van Berkel

“If you don’t get lost in certain narrow alleys in Venice, you’ll only get half excited.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

“My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There, we had lunch at the famed Trattoria al Gatto Nero da Ruggero – one of the most incredible meals of our lives.” ― Maneet Chauhan

“Going around the streets and squares, without a pre-established itinerary, is perhaps the best pleasure one can have in Venice.” ― Diego Valeri

“I’m often in Venice in November and December when it’s foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.” ― Juergen Teller

“The first and only itinerary that I suggest has a name. It’s called: Randomly. Subtitle: aimlessly. Venice is small, you can afford to get lost without ever really leaving it.” ― Tiziano Scarpa

“Who doesn’t have to repress a fleeting shiver, a secret shyness and anguish, when he or she gets on a Venetian gondola for the first time or after a long absence?” ― Thomas Mann

“I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.” ― Laura Amy Schlitz

“You have to get around Venice on foot. Anyone who goes around and looks at Venice only by boat has a dead image of it; the Venice of the decadent is a lunar, slightly putrid Venice, seen by people reclining on the cushions of boats.” ― Guido Piovene

Funny Venice Quotes

“Venice is the most romantic place in the world, but it’s even better when there is no one around.” ― Woody Allen

“If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island.” ― John Berendt

“Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it’s beautiful.” ― Christopher Moore

“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.” ― Henry James

“Is it worthwhile to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?” ― William Dean Howells

“See Venice and die, is that what they say? Or is it Rome?” ― The Talented Mr. Ripley

“In Venice, peeing in a public toilet will cost, in high season, three euros! All that remains is to hope for high water, so you can get it on yourself for free.” ― Dario Vergassola

“If I could re-name love, I’d call it Venezia.” ― Conny Cernik

“Florence is a city for newlyweds; Venice, for lovers; and Turin, for old spouses who no longer have anything to say to each other.” ― Pitigrilli

“Venice never looks lovelier than when you’re using it to dispose of a body.” ― Joe Schreiber

Famous Venice Proverbs

“Whoever sees Venice and does not see the Arsenal sees the handle and does not see the mug.”

“After the confetti, you can see the defects. From the series: only after marriage do you notice the defects of your husband/bride.”

“Blowing on the embers gets the ash in your eyes. That is, if you try to challenge the powerful, you always risk causing harm.”

“Whoever invented wine, if he is not in Heaven, is nearby”.

“He who drinks well sleeps well; he who sleeps well does no harm; he who does no harm goes to heaven: and, therefore, let us all drink until we die.”

“Misfortunes are always ready, like the tables in taverns”

“An hour of happiness is worth more than a hundred of melancholy”

“He who doesn’t like animals doesn’t like people.”

“Eat and drink, life is short.”

“Better to die drunk than eaten.”

Quotes by Important Venetians

“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.” ― Marco Polo

“You can learn many things from inexperienced women.” ― Giacomo Casanova

“He who speaks too much cannot speak well.” ― Carlo Goldoni

“Human feelings are difficult to predict.” ― Antonio Vivaldi

“Wear very dark sunglasses: protect yourself. Venice can be lethal. In the historic center the aesthetic radioactivity is very high. Every glimpse radiates beauty; apparently abandoned: profoundly devious, inexorable. The sublime drips in buckets from the churches, but even the streets without monuments, the little bridges over the canals are at least picturesque. The facades of buildings are shots of the face, just as the steps are shots of the foot. ….. You feel bad. It is the famous disorder of monsieur Henri Beyle, an illness that went down in history as Stendhal syndrome. ….. If a walk for a few hours is enough to make you feel like this, think what the Venetians should say.” ― Tiziano Scarpa

“He who has decided to do something, and thinks of nothing else, overcomes all obstacles.” ― Unknown

“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to those who don’t know how to read it.” ― Carlo Goldoni

“If the most select benefactors do not assist poor wretches the latter must fall into despair.” ― Antonio Vivaldi

“If God blesses us till the end, we will make a profit and perhaps a considerable one at that.” ― Antonio Vivaldi

“Cultivating the pleasure of the senses has always been my main occupation.” ― Giacomo Casanova

Romantic Venice Quotes

“One hundred profound solitudes together form the city of Venice – this is its enchantment. An image for the men of the future.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The lagoon is an ancient work of nature. First the tide, the ebb and the land in mutual action, then the progressive lowering of the prehistoric waters, caused a considerable marshy area to form at the upper end of the Adriatic, which, after being submerged by the high tide, is partially left free from reflux. Human art took control of the most eminent points, and thus Venice was born, connecting a hundred islands within itself, surrounded by a hundred others.” ― Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“As day breaks the stars fade with envy as they see the enchantments of Venice emerge from the fog.” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

“Venice! This word alone seems to make an exaltation explode in the soul, it excites everything that is poetic in us, it unleashes all our faculties of admiration. And when we arrive in this unusual city, we invariably contemplate it with prejudiced and enraptured eyes, we look at it with our dreams.” ― Guy de Maupassant

“It’s the most romantic place in the world but even better when no one is there.” ― Woody Allen

“It has always been taken for granted that Venice is the ideal city for a honeymoon, but this is a serious mistake. Living in Venice, or simply visiting it, means falling in love with it and there is no room left in your heart for anything else.” ― Peggy Guggenheim

“Venice is the illusionistic game chosen as a city. Venice traps you in the changing reflections of its lagoon. It is a landscape that changes together with the water.” ― Fabrizio Caramagna

“Venice still lies before our eyes as it was in the final period of its decadence: a ghost on the sands of the sea, so weak, so silent, so stripped of everything except its beauty, that sometimes when we admire its languid reflection in the lagoon, we remain uncertain which is the City and which is the shadow.” ― John Ruskin

“There are days when the waves of the Adriatic, gray with nostalgia, burst into Venice shouting: “You are mine!” ― Mieczysław Kozłowski

“It is not known whether the sea will invade the city
Or the city will sink into the sea…
It is not known whether the city bathes in the sea in the morning
Or at dusk the sea falls asleep in the city…” ― Madlena Serdyuk

More Venice Quotes

“When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice – and die.” ― Jan Mark

“Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I’ve always wondered why.” ― Alan Furst

“The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.” ― Anouska Hempel

“The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice’s oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.” ― Chrystia Freeland

“Here it is once again in front of him, the indescribable landing place, the dazzling set of fantastic constructions that the Serenissima offered to the admiring gaze of the arriving navigator: the light wonder of the Palace and the Bridge of Sighs, the two columns on the shore with the lion and the saint, the shining side of the fabulous temple, the prospect of the arch and the clock of the Moors. And, looking, he reflected that arriving in Venice by train, from the station, was like entering a building through the back door; and that in no other way than by ship, from the wide sea, as he now, should he have set foot in the most unlikely city of all.” ― Thomas Mann

“I have more interesting things to post on social media, now that I’m going to Venice and stuff like that, instead of, you know, going to school and sitting on my couch.” ― Sadie Sink

“Thank God I’m here! It is the paradise of cities, and a moon enough to drive half the wise men of the earth mad strikes its pure flashes of light on the gray water before the window; and I am happier than I have ever been in these five years – happy indeed – as happy as in all probability I will ever be again in my life. I feel fresh and young when my foot lands on these streets, and the outlines of San Marco excite me. Thank God I’m here!” ― John Ruskin

“I really like to think back to Venice, to that great reality that arose from the womb of the sea like Pallas from the brain of Jupiter.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Here like ghosts under the cover of the night
Gondolas glide along the canals.” ― Madlena Serdyuk

“It’s a city that feels incredible and strange at the same time, I really don’t know why. But I like it very much.” ― Shannyn Sossamon

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