Quotes all about PARIS

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” 
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind [With Earbuds]

The quote I love the best about Paris is Ernest Hemingway’s:

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.

His quote captures everything about Paris in just that one sentence, for indeed it is a movable feast for all the senses and as he says, if you are lucky enough to live in Paris as a young person (I was) then it remains with you, as a part of you, no matter where you are!

Another Hemingway quote that I love:

Il n’y a que deux endroits au monde où l’on puisse vivre heureux:  chez soi et à Paris.

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

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

From The Paris Wife

(A novel about Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley.)

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

Jean Anouilh

Here are some more famous and not so famous quotes that I like about Paris.

J’ai deux amours…..Mon pays et Paris.(I have two loves…..my country and Paris.)

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Josephine Baker

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Gertrude Stein

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Norman Rockwell

In Paris everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

Geoffrey Cottrell

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Fred Allen

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner.  If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Roman Polanski

Traffic lights for drivers in London are imperative; in Paris - they’re suggestive; in Rome - they’re decorative.

Something I’ve always said.

Boy those French, they have a different word for everything.

Steve Martin

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

L’Americain de Paris, c’est ce que l’Amerique a fait de mieux.

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

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

Honoré de Balzac

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

Cole Porter

I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

Mae West

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain’s very important. That’s when Paris smells its sweetest.  It’s the damp chestnut trees.

Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina

**my favorite collections of a famous quotes about PARIS from  famous people! So inspired!