Paris Quotes

At last I have come into a dreamland.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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.

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.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Paris is always a good idea.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

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.

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

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

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

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.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

I've never experienced a bad situation with men being sexist with me. I've been very lucky - even when I was just starting and modeling in Milan and Paris.