Civilized Quote by Ana Castillo

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

— Lauren Morrill

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

— Adolf Hitler

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

— Michael Simkins

Paris was a melting pot.

— Sonia Rykiel

“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable…

— Elaine Sciolino

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the…

— Ernest Hemingway

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The Parisian is of all men the most sophisticated. Paris is a city of realists, unaffected by sentimentality; a city of industry and thrift;…

— Sidney Dark

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended,

— Alan Furst

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

— Bobby Heenan

“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is…

— Julien Green

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

— Anais Nin