Paris Quotes

Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

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.

How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.

I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just bizarre; people recognizing me left and right.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

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.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris.

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

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?, ’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.

The boy took my sketchbook.

I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

I will follow anyoneAnd ask everyoneTo stand together as one nationAgainst the killing of innocent citizens

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you, " which is also sound advice today!

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.