48+ Best Paris Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Paris, France’s capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Profoundly inspirational Paris quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

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Famous Paris Quotes

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art. The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it, therefore, be imposing in its own way? Gustave Eiffel

The shopping, the food, the views! Paris is a city that entrances us all  and I’m no exception. Michael Kors

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes. Lee Radziwill

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

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

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own. Joan Juliet Buck

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. Gertrude Stein

Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and lust of the eyes. Henry James

Paris is the City of Light, of love, of beauty, of romance and of hope over fear, gratitude over cynicism and light over darkness. The light must, has before and will always prevail. I stand with the City of Light now and forever. Doni Belau

Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you. Pierre Assouline

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there, the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

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

It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather Adrian Leeds

I do not believe there is another city on earth so beautiful as Paris, nor another people with such an appreciation of the beautiful as the French

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life. Thomas Jefferson

I know so much is going to happen here, but I just don’t know how. It feels like Paris is full of so many adventures just waiting to be had. Rachel Kapelle Dale

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. Victor Hugo

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, ‘I am looking at the world through rose coloured glasses. Audrey Hepburn

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

Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn

Paris is not a city; it’s a world. King Francis 

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived Courtney Maum

To know Paris is to know a great deal. Henry Miller

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall my buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world to be wonderful and youthful after all. T.S. Eliot

I know so much is going to happen here, but I just don’t know how. It feels like Paris is full of so many adventures just waiting to be had. Rachel Kapelle Dale

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Friedrich Nietzsche

When good Americans die, they go to Paris. Oscar Wilde

Paris is the City of Light, of love, of beauty, of romance and of hope over fear, gratitude over cynicism and light over darkness. The light must, has before and will always prevail. I stand with the City of Light now and forever. Doni Belau

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. Dorothy Parker

But Paris is an ocean. Throw in a stone, but you’ll never know how deep it is. Honoré de Balzac

Cities have gender: London is a man, Paris is a woman, and New York City a well adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter

Add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise. Jules Renard

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy at home and in Paris. Ernest Hemingway

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. Victor Hugo

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

It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather. Adrian Leeds

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

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. G. K. Chesterton

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

Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you. Janice Macleod

Paris is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich if muted) detail. Edmund White

Every girl needs Paris. Eve Chase, The Wildling Sisters

Paris is a divine section of eternity. E. E. Cummings

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason. Maureen Johnson

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. Kanye West