Top 100 Paris Is Quotes
#1. I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.
Thomas Mallon
#3. Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
Orson Welles
#5. The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).
Charles Baudelaire
#6. To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.
Elaine Dundy
#7. Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.
Wes Anderson
#8. He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.
Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.
Nothing is more sublime.
Victor Hugo
#9. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#10. Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all ... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.
Elle Fanning
#11. Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
Henry Van Dyke
#12. Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.
Pontus Hulten
#13. Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city.
Vaginal Davis
#14. If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,
going in circles, mounting each other.
Paris is the city of love,
even for the birds.
Samantha Schutz
#16. Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
Marquis De Lafayette
#17. Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
Julian Barnes
#18. Paris ... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.
Edmund White
#19. It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
Edmund White
#20. [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
Albert Camus
#21. One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
Ralph Gibson
#22. The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred Allen
#24. Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
Carl Van Vechten
#25. Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.
Cecily Strong
#27. Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
Manolo Blahnik
#29. The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
T. S. Eliot
#30. If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
Baz Luhrmann
#31. Yea, Paris is a festive ton
a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy
Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
D.H. Lawrence
#32. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!
Kanye West
#33. Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan,
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#34. We believed Paris was the start of us. It's the kind of city that makes you think of beginnings, or even juicy middles. Paris is a book to savor, in whole or in part, at any time and in any season. At age ninety or at thirty-four, you can open any chapter and read from there.
Michelle Gable
#35. Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.
Woody Allen
#36. Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Alan Furst
#37. The reality is that many of us in these parts are not enamored of Paris." The Commandant gulped down his coffee. "I worked there as a young officer in the CRS, the riot squad. I speak from personal experience. Paris is bizarre. Paris is a museum surrounded by a jungle.
Sebastian Rotella
#38. Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Marilyn Hacker
#39. Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.
Sarah Lafleur
#40. To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Victor Hugo
#41. You know, every street in Paris is wet. Every person in Paris has a dog. Every hand in Paris holds a cigarette. Every mouth in Paris is a kiss.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#42. What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?
Pablo Casals
#43. Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
Jack Kerouac
#44. Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on earth. In our day and age, there are only two ways to get free of money worries: either accumulate wealth, lots of it, or move to Paris.
Veronique Vienne
#45. To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#47. Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.
Swami Vivekananda
#48. I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
Billy Porter
#49. Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
Bridget Kelly
#50. Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.
Golshifteh Farahani
#52. I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.
Alek Wek
#53. Paris is light and love and romance," he whispers. "And so are you. I knew from the first time I touched you that I would explore Paris with you. But only as my wife.
J. Kenner
#54. If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
Denis Diderot
#55. The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.
John Olsen
#56. Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world.
Jennifer Crusie
#57. The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try to pretend they're still back at home.
I saw it as a place for lost souls.
Amy Plum
#58. Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!
Erik Larson
#59. Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
Carine Roitfeld
#60. The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#61. The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
Elaine Sciolino
#62. People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city
Ika Natassa
#63. Have you ever been to Paris before?" I asked Kylian.
"No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patroness of Paris. You're like Paris and Paris is like you."
"Noisy?"
"A mystery.
Natalie Herzer
#64. Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
Victor Hugo
#66. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.
Victor Hugo
#67. Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
Clemence Poesy
#68. Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
Marina Abramovic
#69. Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
M.J. Rose
#72. Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.
Joan Juliet Buck
#73. London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
Dorothy Parker
#74. Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.
Maureen Johnson
#75. Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Willa Cather
#76. Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.
Sirio Maccioni
#77. It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Greta Garbo
#78. In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
Ellsworth Kelly
#79. Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
(Tourists in Paris)
Marguerite Duras
#80. Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!
Brad Goreski
#81. Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Tyra Banks
#82. Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.
Nina Berberova
#83. Paris? People always say Paris is the shit. "Yes, I've never understood the American obsession with that city. The food is actually quite terrible on the whole, and the people can be rather awful if you don't speak the language.
Tommy Wallach
#84. Paris is a heaven for all woman's obssesions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.
Kirsten Lobe
#85. I know so much is going to happen here, but I just don't know how. It feels like Paris is full of so many adventures just waiting to be had.
Rachel Kapelke-Dale
#86. Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.
Dree Hemingway
#87. Paris is an insomniac's heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day.
Francine Prose
#88. Paris is pregnant with layers of history, colored with the ink of artists who dared to dream of a world only they could see.
Kimberly Kinrade
#89. Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.
Henry Miller
#90. And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#91. It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo
David McCullough
#92. I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#93. Paris is particularly beautiful in the rain. It was just a nice experience for me, a pleasant experience, and I was able to present it to the world through my eyes, very subjectively - not realistically, but subjectively.
Woody Allen
#94. The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music ... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.
James Thurber
#95. I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
Cara Delevingne
#96. For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast
Ernest Hemingway,
#97. If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.
Elizabeth Bard
#98. What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
Stanley Donen
#99. Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.
Alice Temperley
#100. The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
George S. Patton
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