Paris Quotes

758 Paris quotes by 545 unique authors

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. — Marion Cotillard
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a… — Katherine Mansfield
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year… — Gene Kelly
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I… — Michel de Montaigne
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing… — James Joyce
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager,… — John Berger
I like Paris. They don't talk so much of money, but more of sex — Unknown Author
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris. — Jean-Paul Marat
Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles… — Unknown Author
One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people.… — Josephine Baker
I have two loves: my country and Paris. — Josephine Baker
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If… — Peter Kropotkin
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all I recognise the… — Theodor Herzl
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by… — Mavis Gallant
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend… — James Weldon Johnson
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. — Gyorgy Ligeti
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. — Frederic Chopin
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. — Elliott Carter
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in… — P.J. O'Rourke
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to… — John Foster Dulles
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful… — Cecilia Bartoli
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a… — Nancy Mitford

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