Paris Quotes

• A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lessons, Eiffel Tower, City Lights

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• A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Preserves, Breaths

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Home, Europe

  "Why I Am so Clever".

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Two, World

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Air, Brain, Doe

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.53, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Paris is always a good idea.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Travel, Ideas

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  Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

  Wes Anderson

  Streets, Walking

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Actors, Want, Eiffel Tower

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• 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.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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

  Victor Hugo

  Sublime, Depth, Fantastic

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• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Lunch, Half

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• The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Laughter, Heart, Gay

  "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (song) (1940)

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• When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

  Eric Ripert

  Passion, Dining, Fine

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  Kanye West

  Land, Pleasant

  "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West 'furious fights over Paris move': 'You're not taking the kids!'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2016.

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• The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

  Irving Stone

  Beautiful, Morning, Doe

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• Good talkers are only found in Paris.

  Francois Villon

  Found, Talkers, France Paris

  "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

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• When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paradise

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Drinking, Book

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• The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Army, Tree

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• I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

  Paris Hilton

  Granddaughter, Want, Grand Daughter

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• I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Real, Play, Cities

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Intellect

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2016). “The Cloven Foot”, p.43, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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• Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

  Edmund White

  Details, Pace, World

  Edmund White (2016). “The Flaneur”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• With an apple I will astonish Paris.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Apples

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