Paris Quotes - Page 24

• Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

  Clemence Poesy

  New York, Home, London

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• I knew Id have to go to Paris eventually, and I didnt want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, I want to act.

  Tahar Rahim

  Kids, Want, Turns

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• I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

  Beau Garrett

  Six Months, Sixteen, Environment

  "Beau Garrett Is a Woman We Love". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Cooking, Legs

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• Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.

  Israel Broussard

  House, Exciting

  "The Bling Ring's Israel Broussard on Hanging Out in Paris Hilton's House and Mastering the Bold Blue Suit at Ferragamo". Interview with Matt Sebra, www.gq.com. June 24, 2013.

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• The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

  David Letterman

  Flags, Lasts, Proof

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• When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, White, Car

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Giving, Feelings

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• The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Kitchen, Dining

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• In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Men, Want Something

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pretty Woman, Inexplicable, Whim

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• One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Men, July

  Honore de Balzac (1901). “Cousin Betty”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Kings, Play

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• Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
  [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

  Honore de Balzac

  Doe, Gondolas, Knows

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Order

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Matter, Remember, Persist

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Rome, People

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• If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

  May Sarton

  Sweet, New York, Smell

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• Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Cities, Fit

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.91, New Victoria Publishers

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• Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Pride, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Arrow of Gold”, p.7, Joseph Conrad

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Real, Men, Two

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• every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Philosophy, Special

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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