595 Quotes About Paris

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements―Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.

Je découvrais lentement que les habitants de Paris avaient un problème avec le temps, c'est-à-dire avec l'argent, en tout cas avec eux-mêmes. La générosité, une forme de disponibilité, paraissait condamnée, éloignée, irréalisable. Cela me choquait.

Paris’in tarihi var, sanatı var, harika mimarisi var, edebiyatı var, fakat bütün bunlardan çok daha önemlisi özgürlüğü var! Eğer bir şehir kendi sakinlerine özgürlük veremiyorsa bütün öteki güzellikleri anlamsız olacaktır!

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety.Sink of iniquity.In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all.

Paris that eternal monstrous marvel … the city of a hundred-thousand novels … a living creature, the great courtesan whose face and heart and mind-boggling morals they know: “They” are the lovers of Paris.

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

A trip to Paris had sounded so adventurous when I was first talking about it a year earlier. People spoke about the city with dreamy longing, as though Paris possessed a magic that could not be found elsewhere. I'd never heard anyone talk about Paris without sighing. The city was a Promised Land that held appeal for most everyone: artists, lovers, even people who just liked cheese.

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.