Paris Quotes - Page 11

• Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever realize how polite you get when you're hammered? And you know what they say. A man's true charactor is revealed when he's toasted. So you gotta face facts, man. You're a closet gentlmen. Loser! The heck I am! Even Paris laughed at that.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Phones, Giving

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• When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

  Oscar Wilde

  America, Dies

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• I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Waiting, You Again

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there is a Paris inside us all.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Pockets, Four, Louvre

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

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• Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Cities, Form

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• I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Husband, Evening

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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 soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Cheer, Fall

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• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Museums

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.161, Macmillan

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• In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fashion, Cat, Eye

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Flying, Balloons

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Bird, Down And

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

  Rick Riordan

  Garden, Hunting, Museums

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

  Jack Kerouac

  Independent, Men, London

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.

  Gail Carriger

  Pigs, Two, Feet

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• The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fashion, Clothes, House

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• Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready... "Uh, I'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but I had no idea you would like it so much," Paris muttered. For the first time in hundreds of years, Maddox felt a blush creep into his cheek, "It's not for you." "Thank the gods," was his friends reply. -Maddox and Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Gena Showalter (2008). “Lords of the Underworld Bundle: The Darkest Fire\The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.231, HQN Books

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• A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Hate, Years, Clothes

  The New York Times, September 15, 1960.

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• The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Friendship, Travel

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• The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Lying, Heart

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• The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

  Jim Lovell

  Airplane, Moon, Color

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• I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fire, Rome

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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