(113 quotes found)
“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.”
Fred Allen
“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.”
Prince Metternich
“Good talkers are only found in Paris.”
Francois Villon
“The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.”
Humphrey Davy
“I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.”
Cole Porter
“DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but I know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of [my] diaries.”
Thomas Mallon
“In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.”
Roman Polanski
“Is Paris burning?”
Adolf Hitler
