--- title: "1 Parisians Quotes By Stephen Clarke" description: "1 Parisians quotes by Stephen Clarke. Plus more from Stephen Clarke and more Parisians sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/stephen-clarke-33884_baguette_i-was-also-sick-of-my-neighbors-as-most_3059362.jpg" --- > [“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/i-was-also-sick-of-my-neighbors-as-most-parisians-are-i-now-knew/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/stephen-clarke-33884_baguette_i-was-also-sick-of-my-neighbors-as-most_3059362.jpg) ## More by Stephen Clarke > [“there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/there-is-a-french-version-of-the-story-and-a-true-one/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“This is a very French trait. Today, if a big manufacturing company is in trouble, it will parachute in a graduate of one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/this-is-a-very-french-trait-today-if-a-big-manufacturing-company-is/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/when-a-quebecker-is-interviewed-for-french-tv-he-or-she-is-often/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/if-they-wanted-their-shit-stirred-then-stirred-their-shit-was-jolly/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/in-french-eyes-it-was-of-course-doubly-wrong-to-execute-a-beautiful/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/it-must-have-been-hard-making-a-silent-movie-about-a-girl-who-hears/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/philippe-also-brought-along-musicians-mainly-trumpeters-and-drummers/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/there-s-no-room-for-human-rights-in-a-government-waiting-room/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father),”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/tanacharison-who-could-relate-to-the-cow-because-he-claimed-that-the/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“This is of course the Prince of Wales’s motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia’s custom of fighting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/this-is-of-course-the-prince-of-wales-s-motto-to-this-day-though/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/there-is-a-class-of-tourists-who-never-seem-to-see-the-things-they-re/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/the-frenchmen-tried-to-explain-that-sexual-intercourse-between-males/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn’t have one because he’d been eaten.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/verrazzano-must-have-been-turning-in-his-grave-except-that-he-didn-t/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) > [“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-clarke/i-was-also-sick-of-my-neighbors-as-most-parisians-are-i-now-knew/) [Stephen Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-clarke/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parisians/stephen-clarke/#itemlist", "name": "1 Parisians Quotes By Stephen Clarke", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. 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