595 Quotes About Paris

This was no ordinary countess or art connoisseur. She had usurped the noble name, invented the men in the paintings, and then bequeathed them to the museum to cement a false association with local nobility. And more: this woman, though born into poverty and destitution, had risen to become one of the most powerful courtesans of 19th-century Paris. Her tale begins with another young woman and a flight from Normandy to Paris in the tumultuous years of the 1840s.

Paris est la grande salle de lecture d’une bibliothèque que traverse la Seine.

Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.

Estaban no cerne da situación máis vulgar, máis estúpida do mundo. Pero por máis que sabían que era vulgar e estúpida, así e todo estaban alí: a oposición entre o traballo e a liberdade, oíran dicir, xa ía boa que deixara de constituír un concepto rigoroso; e sen embargo era o que máis os condicionaba.

Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias.

J'aime mieux me promener sur les quais, cette délicieuse bibliothèque publique.

I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.

Beauty is in the streets,” they say in Paris. We travelers know our favorites, Parisians know theirs. Jean Genet liked to stand with his friend Giacometti at the foot of rue Oberkampf, taking in its long uphill from the Marais to Belleville. Simone Weil loved walking the quays of Île Saint-Louis in her native river city. The scruffy streets of the ninth were François Truffaut’s muse and mother.As cities evolve and erupt, streets change; Parisians come and go. But the beauty remains.

Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…