France Paris Quotes

• A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Paris, Lessons, Eiffel Tower

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

  Charles Dickens

  Paris, World, Made

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.136, Oxford University Press

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• Cuando llega la primavera a París, el más humilde de los mortales vivos debe sentir que habita en el paraíso.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paris

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Cuando los buenos americanos mueren van a París.

  Oscar Wilde

  Paris, Best American, Dies

  El retrato de Dorian Gray, cap. 3 (1891). Un diálogo similar aparece también en Una mujer sin importancia (1893), de Wilde. Véase OliverWendell Holmes 4

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• America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Paris, America

  "An American and France" (1936)

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Art, Cities, Paris

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.73, Penguin

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• Como artista, uno no tiene otro hogar en Europa que París.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Home, Europe

  "Why I Am so Clever".

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Vida, Viajes, Hombres

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• Lo mejor de América se traslada a París. El americano en París es el mejor americano. Es más divertido para una persona inteligente vivir en un país inteligente. Francia tiene las dos únicas cosas hacia las que nos dirigimos a medida que envejecemos: inteligencia y buenos modales.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Divertido, Inteligente

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• Lo mejor de América se traslada a París. El americano en París es el mejor americano.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  París, América, Luces de la ciudad

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Paris, French Culture, Eiffel Tower

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• There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

  George Carlin

  Two, World, Unschooling

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Lo primero que llama la atención a un visitante de París es un taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Humor, Ciudades, París

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• 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.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Past, Paris, Wonderful

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Europe, Paris, Cold

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• The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

  James Thurber

  Art, Years, Paris

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Two, Paris

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• Good talkers are only found in Paris.

  François Villon

  Paris, Found, Talkers

  "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

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• There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  James Joyce

  Spiritual, Writing, Cities

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

  Henry Miller

  Drama, Paris, People

  Henry Miller John Calder (1985). "A Henry Miller reader", Riverrun Pr

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• Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Paris, Wonderful, Surprising

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