Top 100 Paris You Quotes
#1. If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.
Terence McKenna
#2. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.
Julia Child
#3. There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "
Bob Hope
#4. I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
Luke Goss
#5. In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.
Clemence Poesy
#6. In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
#7. You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
Andre Leon Talley
#8. In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#9. For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
Alan Jay Lerner
#10. 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
#11. To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
Stendhal
#12. In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.
David Sedaris
#13. Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.
Robert Pattinson
#14. In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
#15. I have to remove your . . . whatever this is.'
'Nightdress,' I say, my cheek against the pillow. 'It's from Paris. You've been alive how long and still can't identify a woman's clothing?
Elizabeth May
#16. you can forget about the 'Well, where shall we go for dinner tonight?' routine and all it entails. If you really feel like a McDonald's fix - and you're in Paris - you just go.
Lionel Fisher
#17. We wouldn't really see anything at night, from this altitude, but it still felt good, like a layover in Paris. You never leave the airport, but even so, you're in Paris.
Sylvain Neuvel
#18. If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.
Rachel Nichols
#20. Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
Caitlin Moran
#21. Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Jennifer Donnelly
#22. The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things
that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.
Alexander McCall Smith
#23. I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, Pourquoi?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#24. Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle.
John Green
#25. I don't blame you," Genevieve said. "Sunnyvale isn't exactly Paris.
Juliet Blackwell
#26. You'll tell me what it feels, right? When you find Paris?
Con Template
#27. The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.
James Patterson
#28. Everybody's looking at me But it's alright I like attention The clubs not hot until I walk through They stop and stare and watch me move Like damn I like that I'm sexy and you know it.
Paris Hilton
#29. [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
Anais Nin
#30. Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.
Roy Blunt
#31. One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.
Gena Showalter
#32. If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#33. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#34. Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, "How do they execute at Rome?" and you reply, "I do not know"!
Alexander Dumas
#35. First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
Paris Hilton
#36. Hunter smirked. "Nice to see you, too, Paris."
Paris? All I could think of was Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. There will come a day A hazy day in May Or a storm in mid-December When you need someone Just to have a little fun Then I could be the perfect girl for you.
Paris Hilton
#39. And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday.
Ford Madox Ford
#40. I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim
#41. In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
#42. I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'
Paris Hilton
#43. Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#44. As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.
Andie MacDowell
#45. They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.
Stephen Mitchell
#46. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.
Arman
#47. One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
Paris Hilton
#48. There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.
Paris Hilton
#49. There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#50. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
#51. Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
Diana Vreeland
#52. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#53. All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.
Paris Hilton
#54. A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.
Kate Simon
#55. [The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
(The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)
E.L. Doctorow
#56. Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Vernon Duke
#57. Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.
Leslie Caron
#58. In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.
Elizabeth Bard
#59. Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.
Paris Barclay
#60. But you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.
Malcolm Cowley
#61. So what if the air
in Paris smells of romance?
My shirt smells of you.
Pooja Nansi
#62. Come on, baby." Paris combed his fingers through her hair. "Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a bone. Teach me how to woo you properly."
She snorted. "I'd argue the hideous looks part."
"But not the terrible personality? Ouch. That hurts, baby.
Gena Showalter
#63. I know the consequences, Manon," Ilyse conceded. "I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.
Melika Dannese Lux
#64. Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it? ... Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London ... You can't give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.
Alain Ducasse
#65. The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
Malcolm McLaren
#66. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim
#67. I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.
Stephanie Sigman
#68. [Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
Sarah Palin
#69. Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.
Mark Zero
#70. 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,
#71. I'd rather not do anything. Guys want you more when you don't. Young girls should know that.
Paris Hilton
#72. I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.
Gail Carriger
#73. The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!
Barrie Kerper
#74. Don't kill the messenger, but I'm think you should change your dating profil to balding.
Paris to William
Gena Showalter
#75. But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#76. I'm not a complicated girl, she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.
Michael Faudet
#77. In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.
Gretchen Rubin
#78. I would love to be where you are now, in Paris, that home of the planless, the free and joyous and emotional people." What
Hutchins Hapgood
#79. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy
John Pearce
#80. In your defence, it's been a long day and you've had a lot to drink.
George Axelrod
#81. If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Oscar De La Renta
#82. 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
#83. If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
John Le Carre
#84. When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris for a semester. I think when you're there, you can't help but be immersed in fashion because it's such a part of the city.
Stacey Bendet
#85. In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea."
Tina Fey
#86. Ever had Fighting Cock?"
"You talking about the bourbon or some sex position I haven't tried yet?" Paris asked.
Tiffany Reisz
#87. I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
Frederic Chopin
#88. Yes you may come." Paris held up a hand to delay Myrina's raptures. "But this time you will not be wearing my crown. You will be my slave, and believe me I shall enjoy ordering you around.
Anne Fortier
#89. I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.
Kristin Hannah
#90. We have a society in which men sexualize women, period. If you don't want male attention, it makes total sense you'd do everything to your dress and physicality to not be sexualized. But I see that changing dramatically. Now, [younger lesbians] look more like Paris Hilton than Billie Jean King.
Jackie Warner
#91. I wanna kiss you in Paris
I wanna hold your hand in Rome
Madonna Ciccone
#92. If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.
Victor Hugo
#93. All you have to do in life is hang out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good as the chick standing next to you
Paris Hilton
#94. Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#95. You already are the guy I deserve."
"No, Zach," he said, shaking his head. "I'm just the guy you love.
Marie Sexton
#96. I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris.' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin.' Mind you, at least the Eurostar's comfy. It's murder on the Orient Express isn't it?
Tim Vine
#97. Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.
Cecily Strong
#98. A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.
Hilary Mantel
#99. I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.
Marc Jacobs
#100. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France, a couple of weeks ago.I would say, you gotta take a look that, because something is going on, and it's not good.
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