Paris Quotes - Page 2

• But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Moscow, Budapest

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• I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

  John Foster Dulles

  History, Too Much, Students

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• The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

  Humphry Davy

  Art, Saws, Finest

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• I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

  Marc Jacobs

  Dog, Home, Europe

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• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  Adele

  Voice, Singing, Here And There

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

  Baz Luhrmann

  Travel, Light, Cities

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• Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

  Rachel Perry

  Girl, Book, Phones

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• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  Abbe Pierre

  War, Speaks Out, Talking

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Memories

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• For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Pretty Woman, Devil, Fool

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• The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

  Ed Bradley

  Clothes, Months, Tables

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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Rose

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• I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Eye, Cities

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• In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

  Gaston Leroux

  Balls, France Paris, Our Lives

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow

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• This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Nice, Rain, Smell

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• Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

  Patti Smith

  Gutters, Dies

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• Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

  Thomas Gold Appleton

  Funny, Humorous, America

  In Oliver Wendell Holmes 'The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' (1858) ch. 6

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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  Yip Harburg

  Holiday, Tree, Tables

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• Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, America, Hungry

  "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-22, edted by Sandra Spanier and Robert W Trogdon - review" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  Honore de Balzac

  Doe, Good French, Elegant

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  America, City Lights, Best American

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Cities, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

  Marion Cotillard

  World, Mystery, France Paris

  "Fictional character: Adriana". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

  Willa Cather

  Rain, Hard, Incessantly

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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