Parisian Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.
— Sacha Guitry
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One…
— William Dean Howells
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Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the…
— Edith Piaf
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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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And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.
— Herb Ritts
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Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one,
— Catherine Malandrino
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When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a…
— Roland Barthes
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I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.
— Roman Polanski
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Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.
— Woody Allen
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I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
— Francois Truffaut
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
— Francois Rabelais
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Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own…
— Natalie Portman
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
— Victor Hugo
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None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom,…
— Gaston Leroux
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The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe,…
— William Cullen Bryant
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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
— John Updike
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg…
— Daniel Boulud
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Dubliner seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words asLondoner and Parisian both of…
— James Joyce
Who Wrote These Parisian Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Parisian Quotes as follows: