…they smile, too.

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say “Good morning, sir” or “madam,” depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite...

I found love in the City of Love. Not Paris, but Philadelphia. It wasn’t romantic, but more of a brotherly kind of love.

If “Sex and the City” taught us anything, it’s that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

Paris is a heaven for all woman’s obssesions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.

I’ll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don’t like gray areas.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

—En París, es común reconocer a alguien atractivo. El francés no desvía la mirada como otras culturas lo hacen. ,No te habías dado cuenta? St. Clair piensa que soy atractiva. Me llamó hermosa.—Créeme, no quieres...

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn’t if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily – and Parisian vampires were the worst...

And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is...

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again…

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...

The illusion of beauty – the rule of comparisons.

Çiçeklerin kokusu, bahçelerin ve sanatın kokusu da Paris’in şanıdır, şerefidir!

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here it is the city singing. Listen, then, to this chorus of...

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.””It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay...

FAITES L’AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)

Sunset’s the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in Paris...

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian...

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Eiffel Tower” To Robert DelaunayEiffel Tower Guitar of the skyYour wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the beesDuring the night The Seine no longer flowsTelescope or bugleEIFFEL TOWERAnd it’s a hive of words Or...

Ce que Paris conseille, l’Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l’Europe le continue.

I don’t think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. (“Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation”)

Logan looks up, registers my face and smiles immediately. I hold onto the back of a chair to steady my legs. Jeez, he’s got a nice smile; dimples appear in his chiseled cheeks and there...

When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant...

This problem is exploding in the face of the government. They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There’s the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.

And trade is art, and art’s philosophy,In Paris.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

To express oneself fluently involves more than simply speaking the language properly. It includes inflection, voice, posture, gestures, and clothing. All of these elements add up to an individual’s personal expression. They are the elements...

When you’re used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on...

They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest

The reality is that many of us in these parts are not enamored of Paris.” The Commandant gulped down his coffee. “I worked there as a young officer in the CRS, the riot squad. I...

Il était tard; ainsi qu’une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s’étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuveSur Paris dormant ruisselait.

As the shabby section of the audience rose to its feet, waving its hats and food-wrappers, a rich, stale smell wafted through the auditorium. It had something of the fog on the boulevard outside, where...

Mais Paris est un véritable océan. Jetez-y la sonde, vous n’en connaîtrez jamais la profondeur. Parcourez-le, décrivez-le : quelque soin que vous mettiez à le parcourir, à le décrire ; quelques nombreux et intéressés que...

For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of ‘old people’ and sense that one day...

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

Paris est un vrai trompe-l’oeil, un superbe décor habité par quatre millions de silhouettes.

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, “Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you,” which is also sound advice today!

Here, in a few words, you’ve said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don’t talk. It’s remarkable. I’ve investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think I’m the...

The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end to end of the horizon, and now, like millions of stars, they burned with a steady...