France Paris Quotes

• A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Paris, Lessons, Eiffel Tower

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• What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

  Charles Dickens

  Paris, World, Made

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.136, Oxford University Press

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paris

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• When good Americans die they go to Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Paris, Best American, Dies

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

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• America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Paris, America

  "An American and France" (1936)

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• Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Cities, Paris

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.73, Penguin

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• As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Home, Europe

  "Why I Am so Clever".

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• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Paris, America, City Lights

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• It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

  James A. Baldwin

  Paris, French Culture, Eiffel Tower

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• There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

  George Carlin

  Two, World, Unschooling

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, Paris

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Past, Paris, Wonderful

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Europe, Paris, Cold

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• The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

  James Thurber

  Art, Years, Paris

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Two, Paris

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• Good talkers are only found in Paris.

  Francois Villon

  Paris, Found, Talkers

  "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

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• There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Writing, Cities

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

  Henry Miller

  Drama, Paris, People

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Paris, Wonderful, Surprising

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