29 Inspiring Paris Quotes to Travel in This Beautiful City

1. “Secrets travel fast in Paris.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

2. “Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” ― Jules Renard

3. “My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

4. “Paris is paramount for fashion, always was – always will be.” ― Manolo Blahnik

5. “The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” ― Oscar Hammerstein II

6. “Paris is always a good idea.” ― Audrey Hepburn

7. “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” ― Honoré de Balzac

8. “It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.” ― James Baldwin

9. “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ― Kristin Hannah

10. “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” ― Michael Simkins

11. “In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” ― Jean Cocteau

12. “He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.” ― Victor Hugo

13. “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

14. “Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.” ― Willa Cather

15. “You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden.” ― Allen Ginsberg

16. “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

17. “I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” ― Natalie Lloyd

18. “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.” ― Thomas Jefferson

19. “The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” ― James Thurber

20. “When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.” ― Henry Miller

21. “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” ― Victor Hugo

22. “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” ― Paula McLain

23. “To know Paris is to know a great deal.” ― Henry Miller

24. “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” ― King Francis I

25. “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” ― Wes Anderson

26. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” ― Gustave Flaubert

27. “I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.” ― Ed Bradley

28. “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” ― T.S. Eliot

29. “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

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