Paris Quotes - Page 25

• I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Food, Differences

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• Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

  Laurence Sterne

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  Laurence Sterne (1999). “Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.497, Modern Library

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• How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Stories, Significance

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• I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Quitting, Separation

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.18

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• Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

  Phyllis McGinley

  New York, Archer, Love Is

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• [When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Heart, Men, Age

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• The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Saint, Towers, Shipping

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Giving, Atmosphere, Pace

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• People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

  Marguerite Duras

  People, Giving, Participation

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• Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

  Marguerite Duras

  Essentials, Crowds, Ridicule

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

  Mordecai Richler

  Institutions, Hashish, Lordship

  St. Urbain's Horseman ch. 2 (1971) See Bill Clinton 14

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• The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

  Margaret Halsey

  Character, Men, Blood

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• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Beautiful, Cities, Unhappy

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• Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

  Ana Castillo

  Promise, Civilized, Decency

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Glasses, Order

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

  Paula Fox

  War, Cities, Islands

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Strong, Accents

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Glasses, House, Stones

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• Everything begins in Paris.

  Nancy Spain

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

  Nancy Spain

  Cities, Village, Way

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• The perfect classroom is Paris.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Perfect, Classroom

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

  David Nicholls

  Baby, Lonely, Jealous

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