595 Quotes About Paris

Terrorism & tourism rhyme with each other. Yet they don't go well alongside despite some similiarities shared. If one booms it is doomsday to the other. It is sheer juxtaposition between the two lucrative industries in the city of the lights left in a sorry plight.

Like a book on a shelf I'd waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me...

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

If only one thing had happened differently—but life, being what it is—a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

The flâneur wanders restless through the city like an untamed beast. He succumbs to the crowd like a wreck to the waves, letting himself be overcome by the liberating breath of anarchy. There is something voluptuous, almost orgiastic, in this dissolution.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued