Paris Quotes

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. (Gertrude Stein)
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. View quote
Jean Cocteau
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? View quote
Honoré de Balzac
When good Americans die they go to Paris. View quote
Oscar Wilde
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there. View quote
Sacha Guitry
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. View quote
Paris Hilton
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. (Mark Twain)
I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe. View quote
Monica Bellucci
Paris is well worth a mass. View quote
Henry IV of France
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. View quote
Bianca Jagger
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward. View quote
Jean Chrétien
When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand. View quote
Vivien Leigh
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. View quote
Harry Houdini
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea." View quote
Tina Fey
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it. View quote
Marguerite Duras
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists [in Paris, c. 1929] because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's. (Jean Arp)
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. View quote
György Ligeti
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on. View quote
Gino Severini
Fautrier's exhibition [in Paris 1945] made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me. View quote
Jean Dubuffet