Paris Quotes

“Good talkers are only found in Paris.”

“We'll always have Paris.”

“Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.”

“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”

“Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.”

“America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.”

“Paris is like a pretty woman; when she gives you a smack, you don't smack back.”

“Wikipedia: Paris”

“Wikivoyage: Paris”

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

“Wiktionary: Paris”

“Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.”

“Paris is a city of amusements and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of the spleen.”

“The jobless and hopeless kids in the suburbs may burn a couple of cars, but we’ll always have Paris.”

“Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.”

“And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.”

“Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.”

“I had a great Desire to see Paris, & its Curiosities: that being generally esteemed the Centre of Taste, Magnificence, Beauty & every Thing that is polite.”

“Tuit estrangier l'aiment et ameront,
Car pour deduit et pour estre jolis,
Jamais cité tele ne trouveront:
Riens ne se puet comparer a Paris.”

“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.”