Comedy Quote by Robert Barr

“Is it true that they always laugh in Paris?” said Candide. “Yes,” said the Abbé, “but it means nothing, for they complain of everything…

— Voltaire

“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable…

— Elaine Sciolino

“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

“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?”

— Stendhal

“The Parisian is of all men the most sophisticated. Paris is a city of realists, unaffected by sentimentality; a city of industry and thrift;…

— Sidney Dark

“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is…

— Julien Green

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“There’s no point in not letting a fire swallow up things that human indifference has already destroyed. The beauty of Paris or London is…

— Miljenko Jergović

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“What happens in Paris stays in Paris, and all that. Just sayin'.”

— Kitty French

“Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under…

— Irene Nemirovsky