--- title: "1 Year Paris Quotes By Giles Coren" description: "1 Year Paris quotes by Giles Coren. Plus more from Giles Coren and more Year Paris sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/giles-coren-11329_clothes_when-i-tell-people-i-spent-almost-a-year_1001185.jpg" --- > [When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn't, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/when-i-tell-people-i-spent-almost-a-year-in-paris-i-know-they-imagine/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/giles-coren-11329_clothes_when-i-tell-people-i-spent-almost-a-year_1001185.jpg) ## More by Giles Coren > [My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/my-dad-was-undeniably-famous-when-i-was-a-kid-he-was-on-wogan-and/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/gradually-i-developed-opinions-about-food-and-my-french-friends/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/a-man-of-strong-opinions-is-one-thing-but-a-man-whose-strong-opinions/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/as-a-broadly-left-wing-environmentally-aware-urban-believer-in/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/not-since-ancient-greece-have-cities-been-thought-of-as-the-ideal/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/in-the-beginning-we-huddled-in-cities-for-our-own-protection-we-built/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/it-was-fine-for-my-polish-ashkenazi-forebears-to-live-on-dumplings/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/i-was-41-when-i-became-a-dad-i-try-to-be-as-much-fun-as-my-father-was/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/instant-gratification-is-bringing-this-planet-to-its-knees/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/people-think-you-get-paid-millions-by-the-bbc-if-you-re-famous-but-me/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/all-i-care-about-is-that-people-who-like-me-think-i-m-funny-i-get-on/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/gentile-smoked-salmon-is-all-muscular-and-smells-of-smoke-it-s-not/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/i-tried-to-leave-the-city-once-for-one-of-those-other-places-and-my/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/as-drivers-desert-the-city-i-find-myself-clinging-more-and-more-to-my/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) > [I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn't have to, and my wife and I went out only for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giles-coren/i-let-the-other-reviewers-eat-the-bad-meals-so-that-i-didn-t-have-to/) [Giles Coren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giles-coren/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/year-paris/giles-coren/#itemlist", "name": "1 Year Paris Quotes By Giles Coren", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn't, of course. 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