Paris Quotes

The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

Paris isn’t a city, it’s a world.King Francois I

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I wish I could go to Paris right now.

I don’t want to blend, ” Etalon whispered. “I want to belong.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

When good Americans die, they go to Paris, ' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.

In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!

We'll always have Paris.

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.

The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT.“That means, ” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.

And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.

O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada’s.’ Hans Arp

Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow, " he says after a minute. Then, "Wow, " again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

To know Paris, Bruno began, pulling on his cigarette, you need to relax, have a glass of wine, and enjoy life.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety.Sink of iniquity.In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all.

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to getlost in a book.

Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

Paris shook his head."Do you think I would teach just anyone to fight me to the death? I want you to be my wife. My one and only wife.

But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.

Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

It was only in a place like Paris where knowing the books someone loved, whether they followed Lévi-Strauss or Sartre, was the yardstick by which to measure them.

Yes you may come." Paris held up a hand to delay Myrina's raptures. "But this time you will not be wearing my crown. You will be my slave, and believe me I shall enjoy ordering you around.

Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.

He was a Parisian, ’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.

All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives, ” she said. “Wanting simple things with tangled hearts.

I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

If you were in paris your food might as well glitter.