Quotes about Paris, which ones do you know?

This section of ParisRentApartments is dedicated to the best quotes of some of the most important intellectuals and cultural characters. These quotes are all about living and staying in Paris. Even though these characters are very different in their quotes they all agree about the magnificentness of Paris!

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

“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

“Paris is always a good idea” – Audrey Hepburn

“To know Paris is to know a great deal” – Henry Miller

“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant” – Honore’ de Balzac

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris” – Oscar Wilde

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here…. the French Air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good” – Vincent Van Gogh

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown” – Gertrude Stein

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

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

“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world” – Charles Dickens

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mistery to me” – from Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian” – Victor Hugo