Paris Quotes: Capturing the City of Love and Light

"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"Prague is the Paris of the '90s"

Marion Ross, Actor

"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables"

Vernon Duke, Composer

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"When good Americans die they go to Paris"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness"

Willa Cather, Author

"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

Mae West, Actress

"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"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"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Paris ain't much of a town"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen"

Eva Herzigova, Model

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

Jean Cocteau, Director

"The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital"

Ron Chernow, Author

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"

John Hench, Artist

"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

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

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles"

Cole Porter, Composer

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"Paris is always a good idea"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

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