Paris Quotes: Capturing the City of Love and Light

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

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"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

"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

"When good Americans die they go to Paris"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Paris is always a good idea"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

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

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Paris ain't much of a town"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

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

Fred Allen, Comedian

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

Patti Smith, Musician

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

Eva Herzigova, Model

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

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"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

"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton"

David Letterman, Comedian

"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"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

"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris"

Harry Mathews, Author

"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

"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris"

Milos Forman, Director

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Mae West, Actress

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

John F. Kennedy, President

"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

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

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

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

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"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

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

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"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

"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

"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees"

E. Y. Harburg, Musician

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

Jean Cocteau, Director

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"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

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