Paris Quotes
758 Paris quotes by 545 unique authors
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place,…
— Marianne Faithfull
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The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.
— David Frum
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Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
— Claire Denis
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
— Elie Wiesel
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As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
— Diablo Cody
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
— Mark Twain
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Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines…
— Dave Barry
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My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
— Nicole Miller
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Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris
— Rachel Zoe
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There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New…
— Evelyn Waugh
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If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
— Jim Harrison
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Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze…
— Julian Barnes
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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.…
— Julian Barnes
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Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various…
— Julian Barnes
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
— Olivier Martinez
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I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
— Romany Malco
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When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
— Amelie Nothomb
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I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work,…
— Ali Larter
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
— Xavier Niel
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When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
— Andrej Pejic
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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -…
— Nancy Pearcey
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I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those…
— Jacques Pepin
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