Paris Quotes - Page 4

• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Writing, Cities

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• Secrets travel fast in Paris.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Secret

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• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fun, Phones, People

  "Karl Lagerfeld’s Glassware for Orrefors". Interview with Dana Thomas, www.architecturaldigest.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Danger, Chiefs

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.537, Faber & Faber

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• I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Would Be, Way, Knows

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, House

  1939 Madeline.

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• When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Sadness, Men, Long

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Chicago

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• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  Camille Claudel

  Parent, Rodin, Committed

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• I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

  John C. Danforth

  Visitors, Visiting, Mona Lisa

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• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  C. L. R. James

  Government, Democracy, Body

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• I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Live Life, Reality, Tvs

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• Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

  Marion Ross

  Travel, Prague

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• Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Believe, Men, Cities

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

  Keren Ann

  New York, Nice, Home

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• My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

  David Guetta

  Eight, Streets Of Paris, Fake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

  Tony Visconti

  Cities, World, My Favorite

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• Good talkers are only found in Paris.

  Francois Villon

  Found, Talkers, France Paris

  "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

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• There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Names, Missing, Syndromes

  Rosecrans Baldwin (2012). “Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down”, p.255, Macmillan

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• To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

  Victor Hugo

  Humans, Err Is Human

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.439, Wordsworth Editions

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• London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  London, Riddle, Explanation

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• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, France

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• It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Cities, Fifteen

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• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

  Paul Auster

  Breathing, America, Rooms

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