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One of the most beautiful cities in the world, Paris is as magical as it can get. Many writers, philosophers, and artists around the world have sought to encapsulate the essence of Paris in their words. Let’s see what they have to say about the City of Light and the City of Love.
Famous Quotes About Paris
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art. The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it, therefore, be imposing in its own way? ~ Gustave Eiffel
Paris is the City of Light, of love, of beauty, of romance and of hope over fear, gratitude over cynicism and light over darkness. The light must, has before and will always prevail. I stand with the City of Light now and forever. ~ Doni Belau
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there, the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. ~ Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and the point of life. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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
I know so much is going to happen here, but I just don’t know how. It feels like Paris is full of so many adventures just waiting to be had. ~ Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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 movable feast. ~ Ernest Hemingway
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. It always believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ~ Dorothy Parker
Cities have gender: London is a man, Paris is a woman, and New York City a well-adjusted transsexual. ~ Angela Carter
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, and expunge the dead weight of our past. ~ Michael Simkins
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ~ Willa Cather
When spring comes to Paris, the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. ~ Henry Miller
Paris is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. ~ Edmund White
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 the last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh. ~ Kate Simon
The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay. I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. ~ Julian Barnes
Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken. ~ Whit Stillman
If “Sex and the City” taught us anything, it’s that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about. ~ Elizabeth Bard
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. ~ Victor Hugo
The objects of which Paris folks are fond– literature, art, medicine, and adultery. ~ Mark Twain
To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris; it is about being reborn there. ~ Sacha Guitry
…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
La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, ‘I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Paris was all so… Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all – the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French! ~ David Nicholls
It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. ~ Julia Child
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! ~ Charles Dickens
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. ~ Jean Cocteau
I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. ~ Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. ~ Paula McLain
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In Paris, they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. ~ Mark Twain
If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. ~ Honoré de Balzac
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
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. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible. ~ Christian Louboutin
Of course, I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? ~ Djuna Barnes
I love Milan because it’s my hometown. But Paris is the dream city: even when you’re stressed out in shows, you look around, and everything is so beautiful. ~ Bianca Balti
There are only two places in the world where we can live happily: at home and in Paris. ~ Ernest Hemingway
I’d sometimes go to Paris by myself – it was an easy two-hour train ride – to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital. ~ Chris Pavone
Short Paris Quotes
Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn
The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. ~ T.S. Eliot
America is my country, and Paris is my hometown. ~ Gertrude Stein
Paris is not a city; it’s a world. ~ King Francis I
To know Paris is to know a great deal. ~ Henry Miller
Everyone dreams of living in Paris. ~ Natalie Portman
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. ~ Cole Porter
In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. ~ Gaston Leroux
Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own. ~ Joan Juliet Buck
Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul. ~ Victor Hugo
Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise. ~ Jules Renard
Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. ~ G. K. Chesterton
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Secrets travel fast in Paris. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes. ~ Lee Radziwill
The old Paris is no more. ~ Charles Baudelaire
If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris. ~ Gossip Girl
Good talkers are only found in Paris. ~ Francois Villon
The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning. ~ George Orwell
Paris was where the twentieth century was. ~ Gertrude Stein
Paris is a divine section of eternity. ~ E. E. Cummings
It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather. ~ Adrian Leeds
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. ~ Victor Hugo
In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. ~ Kanye West
When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold. ~ Klemens von Metternich
It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. ~ Ninotchka
When good Americans die, they go to Paris. ~ Oscar Wilde
Paris was the crossroads of the world. ~ Lesley Blanch
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. ~ John Berger
Paris Travel Quotes
I love Paris for a million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place. ~ Alan Furst
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended. ~ Alan Furst
I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries. ~ M. J. Rose
There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris, and you already miss it. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin
Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you. ~ Pierre Assouline
At last, I have come into a dreamland. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back. ~ Lana Del Rey
I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God. ~ Ann Voskamp
I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do. ~ Mae West
I am happy in Paris. ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment. ~ Wes Anderson
Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived. ~ Courtney Maum
It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians. ~ Muriel Spark
I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love, and eat ice cream in Paris. ~ Michael Faudet
Like a book on a shelf, I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me. ~ Louisa Deasey
Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and lust of the eyes. ~ Henry James
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ~ Fred Allen
Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you. ~ Janice Macleod
After Notre Dame, what is there? ~ Ara Parseghian
Paris Quotes from Movies
We’ll always have Paris. ~ Humphry Bogart, Casablanca
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city? You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form, and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean, come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe. Paris is the hottest spot in the universe. ~ Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real. ~ Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. ~ Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris
Paris seems like a big city, but it’s really just a small town. ~ Camille, Emily in Paris
I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night. ~ Midnight in Paris
Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me. ~ Paris Je T’Aime
That’s what makes Paris, Paree. ~ April in Paris
In Paris, you can buy beer at McDonald’s. Also, you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? … They call it a Royale with cheese. ~ Pulp Fiction
Oh, I hated New York – that Park Avenue crowd – so I fled to Paris to work on my book, and I was always going to this cafe with Jean-Jacques, and Dickie used to play his saxophone outside, and I would see him, and he would see me, and he would play My Funny Valentine. It wasn’t until later that I realised he only knows about six songs. ~ Marge, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Paris loves lovers. Silk Stockings
Eiffel Tower Quotes
I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am. ~ Gustave Eiffel
I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. ~ Natalie Lloyd
The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build. ~ Hector Jesus Arencibia
I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier. ~ Woody Allen
I refer, of course, to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. ~ Bill Bryson
The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build the Eiffel Tower. ~ Suzy Kline
Paris Food Quotes
The shopping, the food, the views! Paris is a city that entrances us all—and I’m no exception. ~ Michael Kors
It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner. ~ Mindy, Emily in Paris
The French and their food. They put each meal on a pedestal. ~ Giada De Laurentiis, Paris!
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Everything ends this way in France – everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs – everything is a pretext for a good dinner. ~ Jean Anouilh
I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that! ~ Barbara Fialho
I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich, layered, and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to say that I fell in love with French food- the tastes, the processes, the history, the endless variations, the rigorous discipline, the creativity, the wonderful people, the equipment, the rituals. ~ Julia Child
Paris Instagram Captions
Ooh La La!
Paris is calling and I must go.
Paris on my mind.
Paris, je t’aime.
Paris is a city of dreams.
Made it to the city of love.
Paris, you’ve my heart!
I visited the Louvre, but I didn’t like it – Mona Lisa was framed.
Pardon my French
This view never gets old.
Brb, catching a flight to Paris.
Prepare yourself for a million photos. Sorry, not sorry.
Paris is so delicious, they should call it the City of Bites.
This is my new happy place.
A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day anywhere else.
You had me at Bonjour
I see London, I see France.
Here for the views and croissants.
I heard DaVinci and Michelangelo got into an argument, but it ended in a draw.
I wish I were in Paris.
Sorry for what I said when I wasn’t eating a crêpe by the Eiffel Tower.
A bad day in Paris is better than a good day anywhere else.
Take me to Paris.
When I’m in Paris, the world is my oyster.
A dream: a well-fit flat in Paris overlooking the Eiffel Tower.
Take me back to Paris.
Paris is for lovers.
Le coup de foudre—love at first sight.
There is no cure for Paris.
Catching feels for this beautiful place.
Okay, but first Paris.
How can you complain in a place like Paris?
Paris Love Quotes
It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris. ~ Caitriona Balfe
You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri
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. ~ Mary McAuliffe
Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds. ~ Samantha Schutz
There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other. ~ Louis Garrel
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. ~ John Berger
Paris holds the key to your heart. ~ Anastasia
At five o’clock, Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air. ~ Anaïs Nin
To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won’t say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant – that, or somewhere totally secluded… in Paris. ~ Betty Who
Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser — The only true language in the world is a kiss.
Paris Sayings
Paris is paramount for fashion, always was – always will be. ~ Manolo Blahnik
People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.”
~ Roman Payne
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa. ~ Dave Barry
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there. ~ Agatha Christie
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train? ~ Margaret Anderson
There was a florist at the corner, closed for the night. I stopped in my tracks, along with the heavy branches of Lilacs and tangled stems of forsythia, was a fluffy mound of tiny sleeping chicks. A living, breathing easter basket. Paris continued to surprise me. Instead of the slick consumerism of twenty-first-century world capital, it was little things, the living things, that made me smile. ~ Elizabeth Bard
Paris is a woman, but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. ~ Jack Kerouac
I love Paris tenderly and am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. ~ Michel de Montaigne
Paris… is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to the time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere. ~ Julien Green
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. ~ Gustave Flaubert
What you don’t know about Paris is that when you live there, over time, an invisible thread forms around your heart, and so when you leave, it always tugs you back. ~ Robert Black
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. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Paris is a heaven for all women’s obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptious pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes, but as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes. ~ Kirsten Lobe
I first came to Paris one year ago. It was 1899, the summer of love. I knew nothing of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler, or Satine. The world had been swept up in the Bohemian Revolution. And I travelled from London to be a part of it. ~ Moulin Rouge
Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you. ~ Pierre Assouline
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
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. ~ John F Kennedy
I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while. ~ Amy Thomas
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction. ~ Marie Curie
I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don’t really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me. ~ Brian Fallon
I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. ~ Kristin Hannah
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches. ~ James Fenimore Cooper
There is but one Paris, and however hard living may be here, and if it becomes worse and harder even, the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration, and for a living, is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter. ~ Alan Jay Lerner
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris. ~ Romy Schneider
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee! ~ Christian Louboutin
It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour. ~ Sylvia Plath
Paris Puns
Paris, I Louvre you
PARadISe found.
Going in Seine over Paris!
What a Seine-sational city!
Eiffel in love with this city at first sight.
Oui just love Paris!
Holy crêpe, Paris is amazing
I’ve found Paris-dise.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame.
In Paris, I Rue the day.
In-Seine-ly beautiful
Just looking for a Seine.
In Paris, they give zero faux.
I fell for the Eiffel Tower.
Are you French? Because Eiffel for you.
I Musee, the French have great taste in art.
You must be from Paris because you’re driving me in-Seine
In-Seine-ly beautiful sights.
In Paris, Eiffel in love.
Hey, Macaroona!
Do you love Paris? I Pompidou.
Paris has the best Pompi-Views in the world.
Paris is a very France-y city.
I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat
What’s not to Louvre about Paris?
I gotta say, I’m starting to see the Point of the Louvre.
Paris, I hope our paths croissant again.
Enjoying life one crêpe at a time.
When in Paris, we only have breakfast of the Champignons.
Breakfast of Champs-Élysées.
In Paris, I wake up every day to a breakfast of Champignons.
How could I baguette about Paris?
Bring your jacket to Versailles, it’s very gold there!
So sad to say Versailles to Paris.
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