All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. Ernst Haas
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather
I like Paris. My problem is I don’t like Parisians. Laurence Olivier
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 movable feast. Ernest Hemingway
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. G K Chesterton
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. Virgil Thomson