Time Quote by Émile Zola

“But there were endless rewards. There was a pervasive sense of adventure, that a surprise was just waiting to be discovered in the next…

— Penelope Rowlands

“As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him…

— James Joyce

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of…

— D. H. Lawrence

“We chased her across the Pont-Neuf and through the Bois de Boulogne, kicking up leaves, and one day we knew that no matter where…

— Karen Schur

“Will anyone understand it outside Paris? That is open to doubt. The special features of this scene, full of local colour and observations, can…

— Honoré de Balzac

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

“This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for…

— Alan Furst

“We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed…

— Lauren Bacall

I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“The air of Paris is quite different from any other. There's something about it which thrills and excites and intoxicates you, and in some…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people…

— Karen Foxlee