Eiffel tower Quote by Roland Barthes

It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers, but also…

— Gustave Eiffel

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is…

— Gustave Eiffel

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

— Brian Fallon

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes…

— Gustave Eiffel

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower…

— Maynard Owen Williams

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”

— Natalie Lloyd

“As if that was how they built the Colosseum and the pyramids of Giza. Christ, they’d managed to build the Eiffel Tower in 1889,…

— Fredrik Backman

“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both…

— Roland Barthes

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more…

— Bill Bryson

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition.…

— Mahatma Gandhi