20 Inspiring Quotes About Paris

20 Inspiring Quotes About Paris

Paris is the subject of so many novels, films, articles, quotes and photos, that it can seem like everyone has an opinion on the City of Lights.  I’ve collated 20 of the best and most interesting quotes on Paris that I think you’ll also enjoy.

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

When good Americans die, they go to Paris – Oscar Wilde

A walk around Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life – Thomas Jefferson

America is my country and Paris is my hometown – Gertrude Stein

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

Secrets travel fast in Paris – Napoleon Bonaparte

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art – Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shadow of the Wind)

London is a riddle.  Paris is an explanation – Ernest Hemingway

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant – Honoré de Balzac

Paris ain’t much of a town – Babe Ruth

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise – Henry Miller

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

But there is 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 Willem van Gogh

I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace – Natalie Lloyd

But there is 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 Willem van Gogh

I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace – Natalie Lloyd

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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 they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language – Mark Twain

Paris is always a good idea – Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina)

To err is human.  To loaf is Parisian – Victor Hugo

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past – Michael Simkins (Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education)

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

How about these 20 inspiring quotes about Paris?  With so much quoted about Paris, it’s a pretty personal thing to choose your favourites and I hope you’ve loved some of mine too.

Now if you haven’t already, check out these 12 Inspiring Quotes About France and 10 Amazing Eiffel Tower Facts.