What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an… — Augustus Saint-Gaudens Copy Share Image
The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening… — Kate Simon Copy Share Image
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image