Paris Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old paris quotes, paris sayings, and paris proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good. Vincent Van Gogh
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. Michael Simkins
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. Thomas Jefferson
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York. Clemence Poesy
Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own. Joan Juliet Buck
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. Natalie Clifford Barney
A walk in Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. Thomas Jefferson
Paris was a universe and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history. Anne Rice
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 stays with you, for Paris is moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Friedrich Nietzshe
Secrets travel fast in Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris will also likely begin to heal one steaming Café au lait, one fresh baguette, one glass of red wine, one compassionate prayer, one kind word, and one tender hug at a time. M. F. K. Fisher
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. Honoré de Balzac
Paris has always acted as a magnet for artists and writers from outside France. Marie-José Gransard
Paris was a free city, an open city, The entire revolution in art happened at that time. Jean Cocteau
The giants of French literature had long been drawing writers from all over the world to paris. Marie-José Gransard
Paris from 1910 became a centre for new artistic and literary movements combining African, European and American culture, and inspiring ventures. Marie-José Gransard
Paris offered the attraction of freedom, but reality was not always rosy. Marie-José Gransard
Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds. Samantha Schultz
The myth of Paris as a romantic city survives. Marie-José Gransard
To live without loving is not really living. Molière
The national characteristics, the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the 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
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. F. Scott Fitzgerald
France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners. F. Scott Fitzgerald
France is every man's second country. Thomas Jefferson
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather
In Paris, when entering a room, everyone pays attention, seeks to make you feel welcome, to enter into conversation, is curious, responsive. Anais Nin
Relationships seem impersonal and everyone conceals his secret life, whereas in Paris it was the exciting substance of our talks, intimate revelations and sharing of experience. Anais Nin
London is a man's town, there's power in the air and Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair. Henry Van Dyke