Quotes on France Paris

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

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

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

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.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

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

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.