Hot Quote by Sara Shepard

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“It was as if the house, like time, like Paris—like France itself—was sleeping under some malevolent spell.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was…

— Maurice Minnifield

There's something Vichy about the French.

— Ivor Novello

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

— Stendhal

“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,…

— Nathan Englander

“When he went out it was freezing, and a pale winter sun was rising over Paris. No thought of escape had as yet crossed…

— Georges Simenon

Parisians have this ability to be cool and chic without appearing to have made an effort.

— Jeanne Damas

“There might be a war on, there might be Nazi tanks on the Champs Elysées and Jews rounded up in the Marais, but this…

— Lavie Tidhar

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

— Darcey Steinke

“He (Napolean) was in love with himself and France joined in. It was a romance. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract…

— Winterson Jeanette

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy