Old New York Quotes

• New York is the only real city-city.

  Truman Capote

  New York, Real, Cities

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, New York

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• There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Travel, New York, Sleep

  Simone de Beauvoir (2000). “America Day by Day”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

  Henry Ford

  Country, New York, Thinking

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• New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

  Djuna Barnes

  New York, Cities, Typical

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Witty, New York, Real

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• In New York you've got to have all the luck.

  Charles Bukowski

  New York, Luck

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.27, City Lights Books

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• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  Alistair Cooke

  New York, Cities In The World, Village

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, New York, Cities

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• New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Cities, Frozen

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

  David Letterman

  New York, Moving, Cities

  "Late Show with David Letterman", February 9, 1984.

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• New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

  Henry James

  New York, New York City

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.14786, Delphi Classics

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

  O. Henry

  New York, Feet, Trying

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Hard Times, Cities

  Song: Hard Times in New York Town

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• I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

  Leighton Meester

  New York

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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  O. Henry

  New York, Littles, Happened

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.439, 谷月社

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• It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, People, Disease

  The Age of Innocence ch. 33 (1920)

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• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Father, Thieves

  "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.

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• There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

  Jenny Slate

  New York, Makeup, Hollywood

  Source: www.esquire.com

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