Paris Quotes

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lessons, Eiffel Tower, City Lights

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Two, World

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• There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Air, Brain, Doe

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.53, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Paris is always a good idea.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Travel, Ideas

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• A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Preserves, Breaths

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

  Wes Anderson

  Streets, Walking

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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• In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

  Jean Cocteau

  Actors, Want, Eiffel Tower

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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• He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

  Victor Hugo

  Sublime, Depth, Fantastic

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• The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Laughter, Heart, Gay

  "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (song) (1940)

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• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Lunch, Half

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• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  Kanye West

  Land, Pleasant

  "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West 'furious fights over Paris move': 'You're not taking the kids!'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2016.

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• I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.  All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

  Corey Stoll

  Real, Believe, Cowardice

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• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Drinking, Book

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

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paradise

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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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, Wonderful, Burden

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• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  Bill Bryson

  Water, Achievement, Flying

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

  Charles Dickens

  World, Made, Eiffel Tower

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

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• I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Art, California, Venice

  Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster

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• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Breathing, Cities

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  Adele

  Voice, Singing, Here And There

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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Rose

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Memories

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