Paris Quotes

758 Paris quotes by 545 unique authors

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was… — Philip Gibbs
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who… — Frederic Chopin
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as… — Frederic Chopin
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive… — James Weldon Johnson
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit… — Henry James
I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in… — Kanye West
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna… — Harry Mathews
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. — Eleanor Coppola
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not… — Jean-Claude Carriere
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris. — Tom Ford
A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin,… — John Wooden
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people!… — Itzhak Perlman
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. — Lloyd Alexander
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners… — Victor Hugo
New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center.… — John Lennon
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. — James Weldon Johnson
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. — George S. Patton
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows… — Albertus Magnus
I cannot prevent the French from being French — Charles de Gaulle
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the… — Bruce Feiler
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half… — Wolfgang Schauble
Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south… — Anne Robinson
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation. — Samuel Rogers
I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly! — Pearl Cleage

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