Ah, Paris, the City of Light, Paname! The city has always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists, especially those who wield the pen with a certain dexterity! Whether they’re singers, poets or writers, many have captured Paris, its essence and soul, and conveyed it in a few well-chosen words! Marvel at the timeless quotations about our unique capital from the likes of Sonia Rykiel, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Trenet!
The best quotes about Paris
- “Dieu a inventé le Parisien pour que les étrangers ne peuvent rien comprendre aux Français” – Alexandre Dumas, fils
- “Paris is very small for those who love each other so much” – Jacques Prévert
- “It all starts in Paris” – Nancy Spain
- “You can create fashion anywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris” – Sonia Rykiel
- “Add two letters to Paris: it’s paradise!” – Jules Renard, Diary
- “Tear out my heart and you’ll see Paris there. – Louis Aragon
- “Nothing can compare to Paris” – Emile Deschamps, Ballade à Paris
- “To be Parisian is not to be born in Paris, it’s to be reborn there” – Sacha Guitry
- “England built London for her own use and France built Paris for the whole world” – R.W Emerson
- “Paris will always be Paris. What else do you want it to do?” – Frédéric Dard
“Life is Paris! Paris is life!” – Marie Bashkirtseff
- “The heart of Paris is a flower, such a pretty flower of love that you keep in your heart, that you love for life.” – Charles Trenet, in the heart of Paris
- “That’s the way it is! In Paris, even if there’s nothing left to see, there’s still everything to imagine! There isn’t a door where something hasn’t happened!” – Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach, Secrets of Paris
- “Et le métro qui flânait sous Paris, doucement s’élance puis s’envole sur les toits de Paris” – Édith Piaf
- “If you’re lucky enough to have lived as a young man in Paris, wherever you go for the rest of your life, it doesn’t leave you, because Paris is a party” – Ernest Hemingway
- “But Paris is a real ocean. Throw the probe into it, you’ll never know its depth” – Honoré de Balzac
- “I love Paris because you can be anonymous there” – Raymond Depardon
- “Sous le ciel de Paris s’envole une chanson, elle est née d’aujourd’hui dans le cœur d’un garçon. Sous le ciel de Paris marchent les amoureux, leur bonheur se construit sur un air fait pour deux.” – Edith Piaf, sous le ciel de Paris
- “The Parisian lives only in the present, the provincial lives mostly in the future and often fervently in the past.” – Augusta Amiel-Lapeyre, Wild Thoughts
- “France without Paris is like a leg of lamb without mustard” – Pierre Perret
- “Paris is a very erotic city, in the way its streets are laid out. There’s always something to look at” – Prince, in an interview with Le Monde newspaper