Paris Quotes:

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

- Abbe Pierre

topic: War, Law, Paris, Canon

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Leadership, Men, Paris, Barricades

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

topic: Paris, Consistency, Style

Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.

- Adam Gopnik

topic: Heart, Hands, Paris, Strange Things

I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

- Agyness Deyn

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Texas, Paris, Silence, Breathless

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

- Al Gore

topic: Paris, Attention, Environment, Inspirational Environmental

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

- Al Jardine

topic: Paris, Car, Grandfather, Electric Car

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Live Life, Reality, Paris

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Paris, People, Stuff

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended,

- Alan Furst

topic: Heart, Paris, You Like It

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

- Alan Furst

topic: Paris

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

- Alan Furst

topic: Paris, Should

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Dream, Home, Paris

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

- Albert Camus

topic: Dirty, Cities, Paris, White Skin

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Paris, Different, Paris Fashion, Fashion Week

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

- Alexander Haig

topic: Iran, Paris, Giving, Daily News, Takeovers

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

- Ali Larter

topic: Running, Couple, Paris

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Past, Paris, Wonderful, France Paris

...the bewildering beauty of Paris...

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Paris

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Paris, Speak, Glamorous, Speaks French

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

- Amelie Nothomb

topic: Paris, Want, Hats, Amelie

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...

- Ana Castillo

topic: Paris, Promise, Civilized

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

- Anais Nin

topic: New York, Two, Paris

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

- Anais Nin

topic: Flower, Paris, White, Spaciousness, Chestnuts

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

- Anais Nin

topic: Cities, Paris, Giving

the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...

- Anais Nin

topic: Cities, Paris, Opal

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Country, Paris, Government

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Humble, Russia, Paris, Provinces

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Paris, Originality, Wonderful

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

- Andrej Pejic

topic: Paris, Sitting, Casting

So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

- Anita Loos

topic: Girl, Thinking, Paris, Ritz

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

- Anne Rice

topic: Heart, Paris, Promise

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

- Anne Rice

topic: Paris, Age, Ancient, Streets Of Paris, Paris Fashion

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

- Arne Glimcher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, War, Paris, Art World

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Paris, People, Cafes, Sonatas

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

- Asia Argento

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Paris, Want, Adopted

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Nice, Rain, Paris, Chestnuts, Damp

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

- Augustus Saint-Gaudens

topic: Paris, Wonderful, Surprising, France Paris

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Views, Paris, Honor, Famine, Reserves

Paris ain't much of a town.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Paris, Towns

I don't like Paris so much.

- Bam Margera

topic: Paris

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Philosophical, Lunch, Paris, Supper, Eiffel Tower

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

- Barry Sonnenfeld

topic: Men, Paris, Black

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

- Beau Garrett

source: "Beau Garrett Is a Woman We Love". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2010.

topic: Paris, Sixteen, Months

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

- Berenice Marlohe

topic: Names, Paris, Casting, James Bond Movie, Bond Movie

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: Thinking, Paris, Political, Tango

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Paris, Stories, Want

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Paris, France, Frenchmen

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

- Boris Kodjoe

topic: New York, Paris, Modeling

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.

- Bram van Velde

source: "A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger". Book by Bram van Velde, Deurne, p. 44, Letter to H. E. Kramer, October 25, 1926, 1994.

topic: Art, Essence, Paris, Penetration, Art Direction

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

- Bruce Feiler

topic: Adventure, Two, Paris, Confluence

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Memories, Paris, One Day

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

- C. L. R. James

topic: Government, Paris, Democracy, Suffrage, Universal Suffrage

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Paris, America, Rome, Hub

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

- Camille Claudel

topic: Paris, Parent, Rodin

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

- Camille Claudel

topic: Two, Paris, New Life, Nothing New

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

- Carl Van Vechten

source: Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”

topic: Cities, Paris, Care

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Beautiful, Song, Paris, Rossini, Bizet

Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.

- Cecily Strong

source: "Transcript for Cecily Strong Remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner". abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2015.

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Paris

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

- Charles Dickens

topic: Paris, World, Made, City Lights, Eiffel Tower

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Wine, Paris, Six, Carts, Guillotine

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

- Charles Finch

source: Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan

topic: Paris, Important, Youth, Dimwits

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

- Charlotte Rampling

source: Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Paris, Movement

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

- Charlotte Rampling

topic: Paris, Special, London

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Christian, Paris, House

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Beautiful, Cities, Paris, Beautiful City

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

- Claire Denis

topic: Paris, People, Filmmaking

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Paris, Two, Age, Debussy, Conservatory

My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

- Claude Monet

topic: Taken, Paris, Rejection, Salons

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

topic: New York, Home, Paris

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Paris, Hollywood, Film

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

- Cole Porter

topic: Summer, Travel, Paris, French Kiss, Drizzle

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

- Colson Whitehead

topic: Coffee, Writing, Paris, Speaking French

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

- Corey Taylor

topic: Moving, Paris, Four

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

source: Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

topic: Paris, Saint, Towers, Scaffolding, Shipping

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Paris, Towns, Resentment, Saddest

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Paris, Giving, Atmosphere

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

- Darcey Steinke

topic: Paris, Spirit, Flew

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

- Darren Shan

topic: Night, Paris, Allies

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

- David Byrne

topic: New York, Paris, Littles, Preps

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

- David Frum

topic: Tyrants, Paris, History, Cannes, Elba

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

- David Guetta

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

topic: Crazy, Paris, Ibiza

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

- David Guetta

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Paris, Eight, Parent, Streets Of Paris, Walking Barefoot

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

- David Markson

topic: Thinking, Years, Paris, Eliot

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Paris, Flippant, Appetite

Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

- Diana Souhami

topic: Paris, Modernism

The best thing about London is Paris,

- Diana Vreeland

source: "Diana Vreeland: five things you need to know about the Oscar Wilde of fashion" by Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

topic: Paris, London

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Paris, Firsts, Born

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

- Diane Kruger

topic: Paris, Imagine, Phenomenon

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

- Diane Kruger

topic: Paris, Hiking, Hills

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

- Dianne Wiest

topic: Crazy, Paris, People, Craziness Of Life, Easy Things

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

- Djuna Barnes

source: In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.

topic: Past, Thinking, Paris

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.

- Dree Hemingway

topic: Moving, Paris, House

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.

- Dylan McDermott

topic: Sorry, Gay, Paris, Speaks French

Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

- E. Cobham Brewer

topic: War, Circles, Paris, Liberty Tree, Two Trees

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

- Ed Bradley

topic: Cities, Paris, Three, Born To Live

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

- Ed Bradley

topic: Paris, Clothes, Tables, Peace Talks

White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Paris, White, Vienna, Tumbling

She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Lying, Paris, Perfection, Her Smile, Streets Of Paris

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again...

- Edmondo De Amicis

topic: Paris, Firsts, First Time

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

source: Edmund White (2016). “The Flaneur”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Paris, Details, Pace

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Country, Rome, Paris, Hungarians, Budapest

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

- Edward Ruscha

topic: Paris, Romance, London, Captivated

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

- Edward Rutherfurd

topic: Dream, Cities, Paris, Gaiety

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

- Eleanor Coppola

source: Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Art, California, Paris

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

- Elliott Carter

topic: Paris, Flow, Very Sad, Sad Times

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

- Elliott Carter

topic: Zero, Paris, London

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.

- Emile Zola

topic: Light, Paris, Justice, Great Future

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

- Emile Zola

topic: Wise, Lying, Paris

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

- Emma Bell

topic: Nice, Paris, Long

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

- Erik Larson

topic: Reading, Paris, Sublime, Sipping

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

- Ernest Gellner

topic: Paris, Car, Obscurity, Motor Cars

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Notebook, Paris, Waiting, Moveable Feast

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Paris, London, Riddle

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Home, Two, Paris, France Paris, Live Happy

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Notebook, Paris, Pencils

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Thinking, Paris, Moveable Feast

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Beautiful, Paris, America, Very Beautiful

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

- Ernst Lubitsch

topic: Thinking, Paris, France

Rien ne se peut comparer a'   Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

- Eustache Deschamps

topic: Paris, Compare

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Paris, Months, Six

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

- Eve Hewson

topic: Thinking, Who I Am, Paris

Paris is the café of Europe...

- Ferdinando Galiani

topic: Europe, Paris

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

- Frances Mayes

topic: Country, Rome, Paris, Central America

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

- Francois Gautier

topic: Class, Paris, Catholic, Upper Class, Catholic Education

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

- Francois Hollande

source: "'We are Charlie': Across France, nearly 4 million march to honor victims of terrorist attacks", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2015.

topic: Paris, World, Today

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

- Francois Truffaut

topic: Paris, Film, Liberation

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

- Francois Villon

source: "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

topic: Paris, Found, Talkers, France Paris

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

- Fred Allen

topic: Paris, Legs, Frogs

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

- Fred Allen

topic: Humorous, Cities, Paris, City Life, France Paris

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

- Fred Allen

topic: Travel, Paris, Phrases

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many ***** and so many virtuosi.

- Frederic Chopin

topic: Paris, People, Ass

I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more ***** and virtuosos anywhere.

- Frederic Chopin

topic: Paris, Musical, Ass

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

- Friedrich Engels

topic: Philosophical, Paris, Looks, Proletariat, Communes

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

- Friedrich Engels

topic: Mean, Organization, Paris, Communes, Anarchism

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Hurt, Paris, Doctors, Specialists

Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Pigs, Two, Paris

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

- Gaston Leroux

source: Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

topic: Paris, Balls, France Paris

Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Ideas, Paris

Who is she, why is she still here and when can I see her naked? Paris asked with an eyebrow wiggle

- Gena Showalter

source: Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.69, HQN Books

topic: Paris, Eyebrows, Naked

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

topic: Paris, Differences, Making A Difference

Don't kill the messenger, but I'm think you should change your dating profil to balding." -- Paris to William

- Gena Showalter

topic: Thinking, Paris, Dating

If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal

- Gena Showalter

topic: Team, Paris, Guy

Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Paris, Pleasure, Fatality

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

- Geoffrey Beene

topic: Fashion, Paris, Influence, Paris Fashion

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

- Geoffrey Beene

topic: Paris, Dresses, Way

We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

- George Sarton

topic: Believe, Europe, Paris

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Country, America, Paris, City Lights, France Paris

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

- Giacomo Balla

topic: Paris, Progress, Gone

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

- Giambattista Valli

topic: Paris, Language

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

- Gino Severini

source: Interview; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , 1963, p. 247, 1956.

topic: Paris, Ideas, Firsts, Young Days

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

- Gordon Getty

topic: Paris, Piano, Bookstores

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Writing, Paris, Giving, Stationery

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

- Greta Garbo

source: "Fictional character: Leon". "Ninotchka", 1939.

topic: Paris, Making Love, Midnight

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Paris, Wanted To Die, Wanted

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

topic: Thinking, Paris, Moscow, Budapest

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

- Harry Connick, Jr.

topic: New York, Fun, Paris, I Love New York, Best Food

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

- Harry Mathews

topic: Play, Ideas, Paris

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

- Harvey Weinstein

topic: Men, Paris, Effort

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Fashion, Strong, Paris

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

- Helen Bevington

source: Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press

topic: Past, Self, Paris

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

- Henry James

topic: Paris, Taste, Merit

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

- Henry James

topic: New York, Paris, Growing

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

- Herbert Wind

source: Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media

topic: Lonely, Golf, Paris

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Country, Paris, Trying

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Paris, Doe, Gondolas

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Paris, People, Kitchen, Provinces

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Jealousy, Men, Paris

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Ideas, Paris, Pet, Constantinople, Provence

He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

- Hooman Majd

source: Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

topic: Taken, Escaping, Paris

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

- Hugh Dancy

topic: Paris, Culture, Dublin

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

- Humphry Davy

topic: Art, Paris, Saws, Art Galleries

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

- Ina Garten

topic: Home, Simple, Paris, Barefoot

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

- Ina Garten

topic: Dream, Paris, Cooks

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

- Irving Stone

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Paris

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

- Isaac Mizrahi

topic: Beautiful, Museums, Paris

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Paris, Splendor

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.

- Israel Broussard

source: "The Bling Ring's Israel Broussard on Hanging Out in Paris Hilton's House and Mastering the Bold Blue Suit at Ferragamo". Interview with Matt Sebra, www.gq.com. June 24, 2013.

topic: Paris, House, Exciting

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

- Itzhak Perlman

topic: Couple, Paris, People, Wheelchairs

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Hate, Paris, Clothes

I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

- Jacquelyn Jablonski

topic: Paris, Wells, Feels

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: School, Paris, Sick, School Experience

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

- Jacques Pepin

topic: Religious, Jobs, Paris, Fleece

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

- Jacques Pierre Brissot

topic: Paris, Paper, Clubs

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Stars, Light, Paris, Sirius, Metric System

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

- James Galway

topic: Paris, Scales, Very Good

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

- James Weldon Johnson

topic: Paris, Consideration

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

- James Weldon Johnson

topic: Paris, Earth, London, Freckles

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

- James Weldon Johnson

topic: Sadness, Men, Paris

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

- James Weldon Johnson

topic: Cities, Paris, London

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

- James Wolcott

topic: Sex, Reality, Paris, Brady Bunch, Brady

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Paris, Tongue, Married, Madly In Love

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

- Janet Scudder

topic: Paris, Long, May

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

- Jason Wu

topic: Paris, Romance, Pastries

Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

- Jean Chretien

topic: Home, Class, Paris

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Paris, Actors, Want, City Lights, Eiffel Tower

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Cities, Paris, Mountain

(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

- Jean Dubuffet

topic: Art, Strong, Paris

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

- Jean Pigozzi

topic: New York, Museums, Paris

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story . . ..

- Jean-Claude Carriere

topic: Dream, Character, Paris, Little Moments