Paris Quotes

• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Needs
  • Paris
  • Petals

• We cannot all afford a farm in Cuba or a suite at the George V in newly liberated Paris, and more often than not must strive to forge our clean, well-lighted sentences at a folding table wedged between the baby's cot and the dining table.

  

  John Banville
  • Baby
  • Paris

• I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Paris

• When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Live
  • Age
  • Fashion

• As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Proud
  • Paris
  • Empowering

• If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Paris

• The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Fashion
  • Paris

• You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Paris

• In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Weekend

• I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Waiting
  • Notebook
  • Pencils

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Paris
  • Impression

• Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Paris

• Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

  

  Thomas Gold Appleton
  • Die
  • Paris
  • Americans

• Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Paris
  • Figure
  • Prevent

• Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Paris
  • Station
  • Departing

• Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Hungry

• I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Paris
  • Japanese

• We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

  Etel Adnan
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Paris

• One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Being
  • I Believe
  • Expression

• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  

  Adele
  • Singing
  • Cold
  • Sore Throat

• I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Find
  • Paris
  • Pianists

• I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Paris

• A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

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