Paris Quotes

Paris Quote of the day

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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

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.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

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.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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 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 breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

In the City of Light, the stars are blind. Our constellations do not reside in the skies.

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

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

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

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

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

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

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

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

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

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.

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

I’m fine. I’m at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-” “Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven’t noticed, there are about a million.

In Paris, choosing a dress is a monumental decision. In Milan, it’s a kick.

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

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

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

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

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

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

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

I was living "every girl's" dream. But I had yet to find my own passion, my personal project, the thing that would help make Paris mine.