93 quotes found
“The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).”
“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.”
“For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Bro...”
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].”
“And trade is art, and art's philosophy,In Paris.”
“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only b...”
“The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, s...”
“O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack,For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back,Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.”
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside ...”
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.”
“Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispered, Youre about to find out how your liver tastes, my friend.I have tasted it already, Zacharel sa...”
“At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it ...”
“I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.”
“Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.”
“To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.”
“Wie Gott in Frankreich'' was the expression used by the Jews of Eastern Europe to describe perfect happiness. I puzzled over this simile for many years, and I think I can interpret it now. God woul...”
“Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.”
“Paris that eternal monstrous marvel the city of a hundred-thousand novels a living creature, the great courtesan whose face and heart and mind-boggling morals they know: They are the lovers of Pa...”
“Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
