Paris Quotes: Capturing the City of Love and Light

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris"

"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

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"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

"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

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

Willa Cather, 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

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

Gertrude Stein, Author

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

"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

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

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"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

"Paris is always a good idea"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

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

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

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

Eva Herzigova, Model

"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

"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

"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

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

Jean Cocteau, Director

"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

"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

"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

"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"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

"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

"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"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

"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

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