Paris Quotes · Page 20

I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.

— Warren Zevon

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

— Azzedine Alaia

I was never afraid to come back to Paris. I trust the club; I trust this country.

— David Luiz

I feel very much at home in Paris, but I'm attached to New York.

— Pauline Chalamet

“FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)”

— Anouk Markovits

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

— John Berger

I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

— William Klein

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

— Dorothy Parker

“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

“That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own…

— John Pearce

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my…

— Rick Moody

If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite…

— Amir Taheri

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of…

— David Cameron

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the…

— Robert Zoellick

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about…

— Terence McKenna

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of…

— Jean de La Fontaine

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight…

— Nicolas Berggruen

There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom…

— Stanislaw Lem

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his…

— Claude Debussy

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white…

— Anais Nin

My husband and I were in Paris for the weekend and I hated wearing anything that was in style. I really loved…

— Stephanie Seymour

“Time wastes too fast… the days and hours of it… are flying over our heads like little clouds on a windy day,…

— The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of…

— Joseph Conrad

Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change…

— Robert Redford

You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.

— Jeanne Damas

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

— Rick Riordan

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Ana Castillo

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

— Denzel Washington

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

— Vernon Duke

I now realize that people in Paris are a little rude. In Denver, there were a lot of friendly people.

— Evan Fournier

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

— Emile Zola

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

— Richard Perle

Paris has really helped me when I've been down. She's a real helper. She's got a big heart.

— Kathy Hilton

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

— Diablo Cody

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

— Thiago Silva

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.”

— Elizabeth Bard

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!”

— Stephanie Perkins