Paris City Quotes

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

— Anais Nin

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.”

— Nicolas Chamfort

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

— Sarah Lafleur

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

— Carl Van Vechten

“It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo”

— David McCullough

“It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.”

— Víctor Hugo

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history,…

— Nina Berberova

Paris, the City of Light, never fails to enchant. With its jazz clubs, music in the streets, outdoor restaurants. The clatter of…

— Carol Drinkwater

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

— Edward Rutherfurd

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate,…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the…

— Elie Wiesel

“If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually…

— Elizabeth Bard

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never…

— Leslie Caron

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in…

— Margaret Anderson

“... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks.”

— Lauren Morrill