The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I’ve seen...

In the City of Light, the stars are blind. Our constellations do not reside in the skies.

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful...

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of...

Roy

…but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and this is Paris!—humph!—Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time— The first, the finest, the most brilliant— —The streets however...

You’d think the sight of beautiful Place Vendôme would lift my spirits but oddly the arc of jewellery – so obviously beyond the means of a jobless person like me – only depresses me more....

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

Historically, when Americans don’t know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: ‘What am I going to do now? I’ll go to Paris!’

No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it.

I was living “every girl’s” dream. But I had yet to find my own passion, my personal project, the thing that would help make Paris mine.

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of...

I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.

The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend...

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard about the plans to destroy it...

…But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I’ve more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will...

John Murphy amefariki dunia. Ndege aliyotoka nayo hapa, Dar es Salaam, ndiyo aliyotoka nayo Paris na ndiyo hiyo iliyoanguka katika mazingira ya kutatanisha. Watu waliobahatika kuing’amua fununu hii ni wachache na ambao hivi sasa hawajiwezi...

After Paris, Jacksonville has come to be known as the City of Love. Not right after Paris, like number two on the list, but surely Jacksonville would be included on such a list, even if...

We’ll always have Paris.

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.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so...

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

Ne cherche jamais l’amour, laisse que celui-ci te cherche. Rappelle toi qu’on est 7 milliards

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die...

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Morning”SUNThat awakens ParisThe highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel TowerA tricolored cockSings to the flapping of his wingsand several feathers fallAs it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridgesFor her old...

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first....

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

…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...