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44 Magical Quotes About Paris to Inspire Your Trip

Of all the cities in all the world, there’s none that have captured the imagination of several centuries worth of the world’s top writers, philosophers, and artists of all kinds than Paris–and as a result, the number of gorgeous quotes about Paris floating around in the universe is truly impressive.

We absolutely adore Paris. Several visits later, we’ve accepted that we’ll forever end each visit even more enamored with the City of Lights (and yes, some of Paris’ many nicknames did come from sayings about the city!)  than we were before arriving.

So many of these Paris quotes ring true to our experiences with the city, and as a result, they’ve become some of our favorites.

Some I heard long before we first meandered, jetlagged and infatuated, through Paris for the first time ourselves. Some I only heard years later. And honestly, as long as I continue to read about and visit Paris, I’m sure my list of favorite quotes about Paris will continue to grow as well.

Here are some of the most inspiring Paris quotes around, pulled from everything from books about Paris to quips by movie stars. Reading these, I can’t help but dream about packing my bags for the city again.

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“Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn

How could we not have what is, arguably, the most famous Paris quote of them all top this list? I may or may not repeat this to myself occasionally when shopping for plane tickets to Paris…

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

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

“In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux

“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

“We’ll always have Paris.” — Howard Koch

“America is my country, and Paris is my hometown.” — Gertrude Stein

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” — G.K. Chesterson

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” — Victor Hugo

“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

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” — Paula McLain

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

“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 the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” — Natalie Lloyd

“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” — King Francis I

“You stumble, you soar. And if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” — Amy Howard

“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.” — Elizabeth Bard

“In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” — Christian Louboutin

“There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once.” — James Joyce

Of all these quotes about Paris, the two directly above perhaps sum up my own experience in the city the most: I simply come alive in Paris, my energy is boundless, and no matter how sore my feet get or how long I spend sightseeing, I can never get enough. Paris is simply invigorating.

“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 Italy, Spain, or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” — Roman Payne

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

“I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” — M.J. Rose

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

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” — Victor Hugo

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” — Kristin Hannah

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

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” — Wes Anderson

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

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” — James Thurber

“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” — Jules Renard

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” — Midnight in Paris

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”  — Margaret Anderson

“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” — Kate Simon

“It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” — Caitriona Balfe

“There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” — Rosecrans Baldwin

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

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

And finally, the longest of all these quotes about Paris, pulled from Interview With a Vampire –I still remember reading these words for the first time in high school, long before I would set foot in Paris but years after I started dreaming of traveling there:

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards, and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower.

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” — Anne Rice

Love these quotes about Paris? If you’re ready to plan your trip (or just dream about it some more), check out our Paris weekend itinerary , guide to secret Paris spots , or Paris winter guide !

About Kate Storm

In May 2016, I left my suburban life in the USA and became a full-time traveler. Since then, I have visited 50+ countries on 5 continents and lived in Portugal, developing a special love of traveling in Europe (especially Italy) along the way. Today, along with my husband Jeremy and dog Ranger, I’m working toward my eventual goal of splitting my life between Europe and the USA.

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91 Epic Quotes About Paris to Inspire Your Trip

Are you planning a trip to Paris or do you need some inspiration for that perfect Instagram caption? Then you have come to the right place. This list includes some of the best quotes about the French capital, from short captions about Paris to Paris love quotes and more.

With its iconic landmarks, world-renowned museums , and romantic atmosphere, Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It has inspired many movies, literary works, and poems, and on top of that, plenty of songs about Paris have been written too. So, it comes as no surprise that there are many quotes about this city as well.

I’ve lived in Belgium , just 3 hours from Paris, for most of my life, and have visited this city more times than I can count. So, I’ve gotten to know Paris and its atmosphere pretty well.

In this post, I collected some of the best quotes about Paris out there. I hope that you will find the perfect one to accompany your picture or inspire you!

Short Quotes About Paris

If you’re looking for a quote to accompany your picture, then you might find the perfect one in this section containing short and powerful quotes about the French capital. These Paris quotes are perfect for Instagram captions too.

1. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

2. “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” – Victor Hugo

3. “Take me to Paris.” – Unknown 

4. “ A bad day in Paris is still a good day anywhere else. ” – Unknown

5. “ When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold. ” – Klemens von Metternich

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

7. “ Paris is not a city; it’s a world. ” – King Francis I

8. “ We’ll always have Paris . ” – Casablanca

9. “ Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you. ” – Janice Macleod

10. “ Paris is a divine section of eternity. ” –  E. E. Cummings 

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

12. “Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.” – Agatha Christie

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

14. “ If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris. ” – Gossip Girl

15. “ America is my country, and Paris is my home town. ” – Gertrude Stein 

16. “ Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. ” – Jeffrey Eugenides 

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

18. “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” – Victor Hugo 

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

20. “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” – Adrian Leeds 

21. “Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.” – Kristin Hannah 

22. “Keep calm and go to Paris. ” – Unknown 

23. “ Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites. ” – Audrey Hepburn 

24. “ London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. ” – G. K. Chesterson 

25. “ Secrets travel fast in Paris. ” – Napoleon Bonaparte 

26. “Paris holds the key to your heart.” – Anastasia 

27. “I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” – Midnight in Paris 

28. “Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” – Audrey Hepburn

29. “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” – Gaston Leroux 

30. “Some day I’ll be in Paris.” – Unknown 

31. “I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go live in Paris.” – Asia Argento

32. “When in doubt, go to Paris .” – Asia Argento

33. “But Paris after midnight… is magic .” – Midnight in Paris

Paris Love Quotes

Paris is often dubbed the city of love , and it would be nearly impossible (well, maybe not impossible, but the post wouldn’t be complete) to write a post on quotes about Paris without including some good old love quotes.

34. “ It’s true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris. ” – Caitriona Balfe

35. “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” – Samantha Schutz

36. “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you. ” — E.A. Bucchianeri

37. There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other.” – Louis Garrel  

38. “ Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side . — Mary Mcauliffe

39. “ I’m not a complicated girl, she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris. .” – Michael Faudet

40. “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger  

41. “ I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” – Alan Furst

>> Read: Souvenirs from Paris That Don’t Suck

Inspirational Paris Quotes

The following quotes are deep and inspiring. Some of them might make you think, while you might recognize yourself in other ones.

42. “A walk about Paris w ill provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” — Thomas Jefferson

43. “ If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories! ” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

44. “ To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there . ” – Sacha Guitry

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

46. “Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” – Courtney Maum

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

48. “Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history.” – Anne Rice 

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

50. “You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” – Amy Howard 

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

52. “The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – Oscar Hammerstein II  

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

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

55. “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” – Christian Louboutin  

56. “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. ” – Midnight in Paris

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

58.  “I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.”  –  Mary-Lou Weisman

59.  “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.”  –  Paula McLain

Funny Paris Captions

Are you looking for more humorous quotes? Then this is the section for you! Here are some of the funniest quotes about the French capital. I think #64 is so relatable!

60. “ There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it. ” – Rosecrans Baldwin

61. “In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” – Mark Twain 

62. “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.” – Elizabeth Bard  

63. “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac 

64.  “You should definitely visit the Louvre , a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.”  –  Dave Barry

65 – “True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee. But why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know.” — P.J. O’Rourke

If puns are more of your thing, then make sure to check out the ones below!

66. “Going in seine over this city!” – Unknown

67. “Eiffel in love with Paris!” – Unknown

68. “I think Eiffel into paris-dise!” – Unknown

69. “Paris, what a Seine-sational city!” – Unknown

70. “Going in Seine over this city!” – Unknown

71. “What’s not to Louvre about Paris?” – Unknown

72. “Bonjour Paris, let’s baguette started.” – Unknown

Quotes About the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is probably Paris’ most famous landmark. It’s so well-known that famous people have quoted it more than once, and if you’re planning on spending a weekend in Paris , this is one of the places you cannot miss!

You will find some of the best Eiffel Tower quotes below.

73. “I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel 

74. “I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” – Bill Bryson

75. “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” – Natalie Lloyd  

76. “France is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower today and looked up at it. There are very few times in my life I’ve felt so small.” – Leisa Rayven

77. “The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.” – Hector Jesus Arencibia

Longer Quotes About Paris

Here are some slightly longer quotes about the capital of love. You may find the one you’re looking for here – there are some pretty beautiful ones!

78. “I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world.” – Charles Dickens 

79. “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” – Wes Anderson  

80. “ 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 . ” – Vincent Van Gogh

81. “…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.” – James Thurber 

82. “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 

83. “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – Kristin Hannah 

84. “ 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  

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

Quotes About Paris in French (+ Translation)

Eh, oui! Some of the best quotes about Paris in the French language had to be on this list too. I speak French, so I hand-picked the best ones for you!

French is often considered to be the most romantic language in the world, so it is a perfect fit with Paris, the so-called capital of love.

86. “Paris, je t’aime.” – Unknown (Paris, I love you.)

87. “La vie, c’est Paris ! Paris, c’est la vie !” – Marie Bashkirtseff (Life is Paris! Paris is life!)

88. “Paris le jour, Paris la nuit sous soleil ou sous la pluie, Paris sera toujours… Paris !” – Unknown (Paris during the daytime, Paris at night, Paris in the sun or in the rain, Paris will always be… Paris!)

89. “Tout commence à Paris . ” – Nancy Spain (Everything starts in Paris.)

90. “Paris n’a pas été bâti en un jour.” – French proverb  (Paris wasn’t built in one day.)

91. “Paris dicte la mode au monde entier.” – Maria Callas (Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.)

Quotes About Paris: Final Thoughts

I hope that you enjoyed reading this post with the most beautiful quotes and Instagram captions about Paris.

There are many more, but you’d still be reading tomorrow if I included them all and I think these are the best ones.

Is one of your favourite quotes about Paris missing from this list? Let me know in the comments below and I might add it during the next update!

Need more inspiration? Check out my post with the best quotes about France next!

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77 Magnificient Paris Quotes

Posted on Last updated: December 20, 2022

Categories Europe , France , Inspiration , Travel Quotes

Few cities in the world are as remarkable and idealized as the city of lights is. Planning a journey to the capital of France leads to such levels of inspiration that you need some Paris quotes just to stay sane until your flight.

Yes, Paris is one of the most sought-after travel destinations and a gathering point to some of the brightest minds there are. It has been like that for hundreds of years. No city on the globe has been home to that many writers, painters, and artists. No city comes even close. 

Being the favorite town to plenty of word masters, it’s not a surprise there are countless quotes about Paris. Here I collected the ones that inspired me the most or reveal the soul of the city of love (yes, Paris has plenty of nicknames).

I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed collecting them!

Famous Paris Quotes

You’ve probably heard them already because the following 20 quotes about Paris are the most famous ones out there. Being famous is not a sin, though, and there was no way I leave them out of my collection.

1 – “Paris is always a good idea.” ― Audrey Hepburn

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

3 – “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” ― Gustave Flaubert

4 -“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.”  ― Jules Renard 

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

6 – “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” ― John Berger

7 – “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” ― G. K. Chesterson

8 – “I’m not a complicated girl, she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.” ― Michael Faudet

9 – “A bad day in Paris is still a good day anywhere else.” ― Unknown 

10 – “We’ll always have Paris.”  ― Humphry Bogart, Casablanca

11 – “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.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

12 – “There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.”   — Rosecrans Baldwin

13 – “I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” ― Amy Thomas

14 – “If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories!”  — Mehmet Murat Ildan

15 – “When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.”  ― Klemens von Metternich

16 – “It’s true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.” ― Caitriona Balfe

17 – “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.”   ― E.A. Bucchianeri

18 – “The objects of which Paris folks are fond– literature, art, medicine, and adultery.” ― Mark Twain

19 – “To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.” ― Sacha Guitry

20 – “Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” ― Janice Macleod

Short Quotes About Paris

If you are searching for an Instagram caption, the following 21 Paris quotes should do the trick. All you need is a sweet Eiffel tower picture, and you’re guaranteed hundreds of likes! 

21 – “Paris is a city where time is best to spend doing nothing.”   ― Erich Maria Remarque

22 – “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” ― T.S. Eliot

23 – “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux

24 – “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” ― Adrian Leeds

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

26 – “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” ― King Francis I

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

28 – “I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.”   — Ann Voskamp

29 – “If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” ― Gossip Girl

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

31 – “Paris holds the key to your heart.”   ― Anastasia

32 – “Secrets travel fast in Paris.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

33 – “America is my country, and Paris is my home town.” ― Gertrude Stein

34- “Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides

35 – “Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites.” ― Audrey Hepburn

36 – “It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner.” ― Mindy, Emily in Paris

37 – “Paris is a divine section of eternity.” ― E. E. Cummings

38 – “Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.” ― Charles de Montesquieu

39 -“Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” ― Courtney Maum

40 – “Paris was where the twentieth century was.” ― Gertrude Stein

41 – “Paris – There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself.” — Langston Hughes

Hemingway’s Paris Quotes

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most notable authors of the 20th century. He spent quite some time in the city of lights, and judging by his works, he adored Paris more than anything. 

42 – “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 lay beside you in the moonlight.” ― Ernest Hemingway

43 – “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.” ― Ernest Hemingway

44 – “Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.” ― Ernest Hemingway

45 – “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

46 – “I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”  ― Ernest Hemingway

Victor Hugo’s Quotes About Paris

Victor Hugo is the most celebrated French writer. The author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame spent most of his life in the capital and produced some of the most memorable Paris quotes.

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

48 – “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

48 – “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” ― Victor Hugo

49 – “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” ― Victor Hugo

50 – “The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless.” ― Victor Hugo

More Quotes About Paris

And if you can’t find anything inspirational up there (you’re a tough nut, aren’t you), I’ve got some additional Paris quotes that should do the trick.

51 – “Paris is a heaven for all women’s obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptious pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.” ― Kirsten Lobe

52 – “Like a book on a shelf I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me…” ― Louisa Deasey

53 – “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

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

55 – “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ― Kristin Hannah

56 – “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” ― Paula McLain

57 – “Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” ― Jack Kerouac

58 – “Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilization. It’s where it all began and ended.” ― Alan Furst

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

60 – “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” ― Samantha Schutz

61 – “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” ― Marion Cotillard

62 – “Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me.” ― from the  Paris Je T’Aime  movie

63 – “I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” ― M.J. Rose

64 – “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 Kapelke-Dale

65 – “Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser — The only true language in the world is a kiss.” ― Alfred de Musset

66 – “The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” ― James Thurber

67 – “Of course, I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?” — Djuna Barnes

68 – “Paris is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to the time when the urged business requires their presence elsewhere.” ― Julien Green.

69 – “The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners.”  ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

70. – “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

71 – “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” ― Natalie Lloyd

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

73 – “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

74 – “There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other.” — Louis Garrel

75 – “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

76 – “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.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides

77 – “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”  — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Now I know those are not all quotes about Paris. If I list them all, you would have to read this post for hours. The 77 quotes here are my personal favorites, but I’m pretty sure I’ve missed some good ones. So if you have any suggestions, don’t be shy and share them.

If you are still planning your trip to Paris, make sure to check my  detailed Paris itinerary guide  that will save you hours and hours of waiting in lines. On the other hand, if you’re not that into pre-designed itineraries, see what  the city of light is famous for  and plan your perfect Paris adventure.

Wait, I have another idea. You can also copy my  magnificent Paris bucket list  and see if you can complete it all while in town. I promise tons of fun with this one.

And if you need some extra inspiration, you can check my  mountain , adventure  and  travel quotes  collections or the Rome and London ones. You can also have a laugh with these  25 fun Paris facts .

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133 Paris Quotes to Ignite Your Wanderlust

Ah Paris, the wonderful city of love, art, and culture. With its winding cobblestone streets, beautiful parks, and iconic monuments, it’s no wonder why so many travelers visit Paris year after year. Remember the many stories, novels, movies, and of course, quotes about this beautiful city! 

To help you get in the Parisian spirit, here are 133 inspiring Paris quotes to ignite your wanderlust and make you want to explore the City of Light.

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Famous Quotes About Paris

From classic films to modern blockbusters, some of the most cherished quotes about Paris have graced our screens. Here are some of the most famous Paris quotes to ignite your wanderlust!

1. Secrets travel fast in Paris. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

2. We’ll always have Paris. (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)

3. Paris is a divine section of eternity. (E. E. Cummings)

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

5. I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world. (Charles Dickens)

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

7. To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris; it is about being reborn there. (Sacha Guitry)

8. Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be elegant. (Honoré de Balzac)

9. To know Paris is to know a great deal. (Henry Miller)

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

11. Paris is always a good idea. (Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina)

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

13. Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul. (Victor Hugo)

14. Paris is not a city; it’s a world. (King Francis I)

15. She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. (Gustave Flaubert)

16. London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. (G. K. Chesterson)

17. The objects of which Paris folks are fond– literature, art, medicine, and adultery. (Mark Twain

18. I’m not a complicated girl, she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris. (Michael Faudet)

19. When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold. (Klemens von Metternich)

20. You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you. (E.A. Bucchianeri)

21. 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. (Vincent Van Gogh)

22. It’s true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris. (Caitriona Balfe)

23. If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories! (Mehmet Murat Ildan)

24. Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise. (Jules Renard)

25. I guess it shows that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while. (Amy Thomas)

26. There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris, and you already miss it. (Rosecrans Baldwin)

27. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. (John Berger)

28. A bad day in Paris is still a good day anywhere else. (unknown)

29. They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! (Stephanie Perkins, Anna, and the French Kiss)

Short Quotes About Paris

Want a short and Paris-inspired quote as your next Instagram caption or Facebook post? Check out these short yet meaningful one-liners about Paris.

30. Walking Paris is often described as reading, as though the city itself were a huge anthology of tales. It exerts a magnetic attraction over its citizens and its visitors, for it has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France. (Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust)

31. Paris is well worth a Mass (King Henry IV)

32. America is my country, and Paris is my hometown. (Gertrude Stein)

33. Paris – There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself. (Langston Hughes)

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

35. But Paris after midnight… is magic. (Midnight in Paris)

36. Paris was where the twentieth century was. (Gertrude Stein)

37. Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back. (Lana Del Rey)

38. To study in Paris is to be born in Paris! (Victor Hugo)

39. Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. (Charles de Montesquieu)

40. When in doubt, go to Paris. (Asia Argento)

41. Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites. \ (Audrey Hepburn)

42. I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God. (Ann Voskamp)

43. Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. (Jeffrey Eugenides)

44. Every girl needs Paris. (Eve Chase, The Wildling Sister)

45. It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner. (Mindy, Emily in Paris)

46. If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris. (Gossip Girl)

47. Paris holds the key to your heart. (Anastasia)

Love Quotes – Paris Edition

It is no secret that many lovers would visit Paris and proclaim their love. Where else is the most romantic place on Earth? Here are some of the best quotes celebrating love and all its beauty.

48. Paris is a city for lovers, and also a city to fall in love with. (Unknown)

49. To walk hand-in-hand along the Seine, to watch the nightly lights display shimmering on the Eiffel Tower – Paris brings out the romantic in everyone. (Unknown)

50. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris and the moment that I felt that Paris had fallen in love with me. (Paris, Je T’Aime)

51. I think they’ve taken all of those down now and installed plastic shielding rather than the chain link. But our little smiley-faced love lock lived in Paris for a while! (Unknown)

52. On our first visit to Paris, my husband surprised me by bringing along a lock in our luggage. We added it to one of the ‘locks of love’ bridges. (Unknown)

53. Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side. (Mary Mcauliffe)

54. Paris loves lovers. (Silk Stockings)

55. Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds. (Samantha Schutz, I Don’t Want to Be Crazy)

Dreaming of Paris Quotes

Dreaming about your next trip to Paris? Then these quotes are sure to inspire you to take that journey. Whether it’s a romantic getaway or simply an opportunity to explore all of the beauty and culture that Paris has to offer, these quotes will remind you of why traveling to Paris is worth it.

56. Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real. (Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina)

57. Paris… is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere. (Julien Green)

58. I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries. (M.J. Rose

59. Everyone dreams of living in Paris. (Natalie Portman)

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

61. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris. (Anne Rice)

62. 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)

63. In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. (Mark Twain)

64. I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. (Ernest Hemingway)

65. I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. (Kristin Hannah)

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

Nostalgic Quotes About Paris

Even if you’ve never been there, Paris is a city that stirs the soul. No matter how many years have passed since your last visit, memories will still linger, and these quotes help to capture the essence of why this city is so special.

67. 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)

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

69. Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. (Paula McLain)

70. Of course, I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember? -Djuna Barnes

71. There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it. (Rosecrans Baldwin)

72. Paris holds the key to your heart. (Anastasia)

73. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his. (Kristin Hannah)

74. What you don’t know about Paris, is that when you live there, over time, an invisible thread forms around your heart, and so when you leave, it always tugs you back. (Robert Black)

Beauty of Paris Quotes

Mesmerizing, enticing, and captivating—Paris has an unparalleled beauty that’s hard to put into words. These quotes offer a glimpse of what makes the city extra special.

75. I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches. (James Fenimore Cooper)

76. When you see some sun, Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes. (Lee Radziwill)

77. I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night. (Midnight in Paris)

78. Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America. (Ernest Hemingway)

79. I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place. (Alan Furst)

80. That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. (Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris)

81. The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre. (Claude Monet) 

82. Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there. (Agatha Christie)

83. 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… (Edward Hopper)

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

85. A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on the last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh. (Kate Simon)

Art In Paris

Paris is also home to some of the world’s greatest pieces of art and architecture, as these quotes show.

86. Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment. (Wes Anderson)

87. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind)

89. 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 Italy, Spain, or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. (Roman Payne)

90. In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. (Jean Cocteau)

Paris Quotes About Louvre and Eiffel Tower

Anyone who talks about Paris knows the Eiffel Tower, so it’s unsurprising that this iconic structure makes its way into many quotes.

91. France is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower today and looked up at it. There are very few times in my life I’ve felt so small. (Leisa Rayven)

92. You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa. (Dave Barry)

93. Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre. (Paul Cezanne)

94. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. (Bill Bryson

95. The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. (Paul Cezanne)

96. It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir

97. I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am. (Gustave Eiffel)

98. Don’t be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern – the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs. (Sherwood Anderson)

99. Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind. (Brian Fallon)

100. The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They’re monumental. They’re straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. (Billy Crystal)

101. I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. (Natalie Lloyd)

Inspiring Paris Quotes

Lots of people get inspiration from Paris, be it ordinary travelers, writers, and even celebrities. Here are some of the best.

102. It is the French way of saying, ‘I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.(Audrey Hepburn)

103. It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. (Julian Barnes)

104. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

105. 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)

106. 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)

107. I’d love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I’d want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wine glasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose. (Maureen Johnson)

Living The Parisian Life Quotes

Ever wonder what it’s like living in one of the most famous cities in the world? These quotes will give you a little insight:

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

109. 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 Kapelke-Dale)

110. Paris is a city where time is best to spend doing nothing. (Erich Maria Remarque

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

112. In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible. (Christian Louboutin)

113. Paris. … There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself. (Langston Hughes)

114. 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)

115. In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. (Gaston Leroux)

Funny Paris Quotes

What’s the best way to end a list of Paris quotes? With some humor, of course!

161. I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret. (Mary-Lou Weisman)

117. The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. (Fred Allen)

118. For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for a living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter. (Alan Jay Lerner

119. To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. (Victor Hugo)

120. I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. (Gilbert Gottfried) True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee. But why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know. (P.J. O’Rourke)

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

122. I’ve been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller – my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that’s going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen’s lavatory. (David Niven)

123. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. (Julia Child) 

124. 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. (Muriel Spark)

125. Pardon my French (Unknown)

Paris Quotes in French and Italian

The best Paris quotes are not only written in the universal language. Of course, some of them have been written in French and Italian as well! To end our list, here are a couple of them:

126. A Paris, vois-tu, il vaudrait mieux n’avoir pas de lit que pas d’habit. (In Paris, it is better to have no bed than no clothes.) Maupassant

127. Le vrai parisien n’aime pas Paris, mais il ne peut vivre ailleurs. (A true Parisian does not love Paris, but can not live elsewhere.) Alphonse Karr 

128. Paris n’a pas été bâti en un jour. (Paris wasn’t built in one day.) French proverb

129. La vie, c’est Paris ! Paris, c’est la vie! (Life is Paris! Paris is life!) Marie Bashkirtseff

130. Tout commence à Paris. (Everything starts in Paris.) Nancy Spai

131. Solo Parigi è degna di Roma, solo Roma è degna di Parigi (Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris) (The motto of the exclusive sister cities of Paris and Rome

132. Paris, je t’aime. (Paris, I love you.) Unknown

133. Paris est à proprement dire toute la France. (Paris is actually France.) Heinrich Heine 

And there you have it! Up to 133 of the best Paris quotes. With every quote, you can appreciate the beauty and energy of one of the world’s most iconic cities. Remember, no matter what kind of traveler you are – whether it’s for business or pleasure – take some time to explore the streets and breathe in all that Paris has to offer.

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Quotes On Paris: 73 Best Paris Quotes That Will Inspire You

Are you looking for Paris quotes to inspire you to visit the city of love or just Paris Instagram captions to up your Insta game? Look no further as this post has all the best quotes on Paris you’ll love.

Known for its impeccable beauty, charm, and romantic feel, Paris is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world!

And with all its beauty, so many writers, travelers, and artists have been inspired to write quotes about Paris that truly paint a picture of how incredible the city of love is.

Some Paris quotes will make you wonder how those people must have felt as they penned them down, some other quotes on Paris will make you want to pack your bags and travel to the city to discover the beauty that was felt through words while other Paris love quotes will make you want to fall in love.

So, whether you’re looking for Paris quotes for Instagram, Paris captions for your social media, just need some inspiration, or want to imagine the city of love through the words penned down by wise men and women, these Paris quotes that I’ve curated will truly inspire you and make you want to book a weekend trip to Paris .

Psst… You can also check out these funny Paris puns if you want your followers to laugh out loud or the beautiful quotes about France if you want to cover the entire country.

Quotes and Captions about Paris that will inspire you To travel to the city of lights

Some of these quotes on Paris have been featured in popular books on Paris , literature, movies, and TV and some other Paris quotes remind us about history as they were quoted by men who contributed to the shaping of today’s Paris.

So read on and discover the famous quotes about Paris that will make you love this city even more than before.

Best Paris Travel Quotes

Let’s kick off this list with travel-related Paris sayings or Parisian quotes related to travel.

1.”Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn

When you start feeling guilty about over-traveling to the French capital, know that this Paris quote was written for you and that there is no shame in visiting Paris a thousand times because guess what, Paris is always a good idea!

2.“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

As someone who lives in Paris, this Hemingway Paris quote literally speaks to me and there is no fault in what he said as Paris is always in my heart wherever I go.

3. “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” — King Francis I

Honestly, what is the world without Paris? Literally, this quote about Paris summarizes everything about the French capital as we know it.

4. “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” — Christian Louboutin

Oh, I totally agree with this quote on Paris as there are so many incredible things to do in Paris that even if you only have 2 days in the city , a month, or even 2 months, it will be impossible to see everything.

5. “Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” — Jules Renard

Nothing more to add to this caption for Paris because it takes a huge city and summarizes it in one word and I couldn’t agree more!

6. “Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.” — Ernest Hemingway

And no he didn’t mean the food or the Parisian desserts but the beauty of seeing every corner of Paris will satisfy your soul.

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

Don’t even get me started with this Paris quote! I literally cried the first time I visited Paris ! I just couldn’t believe that I was finally in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe – maybe I am just a crier but there is something about Paris that brings out all the emotions.

8. “Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.”— Natalie Clifford Barney

Indeed Paris is a city of dreamers and this quote on Paris couldn’t have put it any other way.

9. “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.”— Midnight In Paris

I know right? Like where else would you live when Paris is here?

10. “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.”  — Honoré de Balzac

If people complain about how much you visit Paris, just point them to this Paris quote and tell them that you just want to be incredibly elegant!

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

If you’ve been to Paris, you know that this is one of the quotes on Paris that summarizes how travelers enjoy the city. From the breathtaking views of the Eiffel Tower and the spectacular views of the city to the delicious food, you can’t ask for anything more.

12. “I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” — Midnight in Paris

This is something I haven’t decided upon myself as well! When I explore it during the day, I am in awe but as soon as I visit Paris at night , I am still in awe of its beauty! I guess I just have to come to terms with the fact that Paris is beautiful regardless of when you visit.

13. “I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world.” — Charles Dickens

We can all agree with this caption about Paris by Charles Dickens because you can never visit Paris and not be impacted by it.

14. “Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” ― Janice Macleod

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

16. “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…” — Edward Hopper

17. “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” — Adrian Leeds

No, you come for the beauty, the food, the landmarks but not the weather!

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

19. “Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” —Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

So yes, if you ever start doubting that perhaps your dreams are just dreams, think of Paris and you’ll be reminded that dreams are actually real.

 20. “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.”— Elizabeth Bard

And let’s all agree, that’s hard to come by but even New Yorkers fantasize about the city of love.

21. “To know Paris is to know a great deal.” —Henry Miller

With a slice of every bit of aspect of Paris, from the food, culture, monuments, history, and beauty, to charm, visiting Paris will truly teach you a bit of something about everything.

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

If you’ve been to Paris in spring before, then you know how incredibly beautiful it becomes! All streets and parks are covered in cherry blossoms creating a beauty that can be appreciated by anyone alive.

23. “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

24. “Keep calm and go to Paris.” — Unknown

Sometimes you don’t need a reason to visit Paris, just pack your bags and go and when you reach there, you’ll realize that going there is all you needed to be at peace.

25. “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 Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. ” — Roman Payne

Yes, Paris inspires ideas and its immense beauty just makes you want to write! I totally relate to this Paris quote because Paris inspired me to start this blog “dreams in Paris”.

26. “ Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” ― Margaret Anderson

That is entirely true! You just get out of a train station and you’re greeted by landmark after landmark! This magic can’t be found anywhere else.

27. “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris.” ― Victor Hugo

28. “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” — Michael Simkin

Truly getting lost in the pretty streets of Paris will make you forget all your worries as you take in all the charm your heart and eyes can handle.

29. “I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” ― Amy Thomas

30. “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Talk about a city that considers everything a form of art! No wonder Paris is known as a city of art and culture, everything in Paris is art, and death is no exception.

31. ” Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” ― Natalie Portman

32. “Final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.”  ― Kate Simon

Sunsets have never been any better than in Paris especially on the Seine! And if you can; go to an area on the Seine where you can also see the Eiffel Tower and the stunning view of the sunset, the seine, and the Eiffel Tower together will make you understand while sunsets in Paris are incredibly beautiful. Of course, this also applies to Paris sunrises .

33. “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

No wonder so many famous artists called Paris home! It gave them a sense of belonging that they couldn’t find in any other city in Europe.

34. “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Nothing beats sitting on one of the many rooftops in Paris with a glass of wine and thinking about just anything!

35. “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” ― Wes Anderson

This quote about Paris says everything I feel when I walk around the streets of Paris! The architecture, the beauty, the charm all make it feel like you’re in a movie that you want to keep watching for hours!

36. “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 Kapelke-Dale

And I’m still waiting for those adventures as every day in Paris is a day to go on a beautiful adventure that makes you look forward to the days ahead.

37. “The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” ― James Thurber

38. “Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you.” ― Pierre Assouline, The Light of Paris

And guess what? It usually does – well at least to me!

39. “You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” ― Owen Wilson 

Well said! Nothing can compete with the beauty in Paris- be it the architecture, the lights, the art – everything just makes more sense in Paris.

Love Quotes about Paris

We all know Paris is a city of love and there is no better way to emphasize it than through various romantic quotes about Paris. So whether you want to send a love message or just want to have a feeling of love, these love quotes on Paris will inspire you.

40. “ It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” ― Caitriona Balfe

41. “I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” ― Alan Furst

With the many romantic things to do in Paris , you’ll fall in love all over again by just visiting this incredibly romantic city.

42. “I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.” ― Michael Faudet

If this Paris quote doesn’t inspire love, then you might need to re-evaluate yourself (just kidding…). And what better way to enjoy the city of love than walking on the pretty streets eating ice cream

43. “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. ” ―John Berger

44. “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.”― Samantha Schutz

Who said Paris inspires love in only humans? No, every creature in Paris feels the love and all they wanna do is express it!

45. “That was the moment I fell in love with Paris and the moment that I felt that Paris had fallen in love with me.” ― Paris, je t’aime

46. The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café. ― Oscar Hammerstein II

Funny Paris Quotes

Looking for a laugh or even a funny Instagram caption for Paris, then these funny quotes about Paris will definitely give you a laugh!

47. “At five o’clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.”― Anaïs Nin

Oh totally! Try going to Montmartre especially near the Moulin Rouge and that entire street and you’ll realize that this is one of the most realistic and funny quotes about Paris.

48. “When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.” ― Klemens von Metternich

This quote about Paris goes to show how Paris is at the center of Europe! I guess Europe should watch out and not make Paris angry lol

49. “Paris is like a whore. From a distance, she seems ravishing you can’t wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.” ― Henry Miller

50. “In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” ― Mark Twain

Oh, believe me, every time I try to speak some French, the French look at me like “which language is that”! It’s like I invented my own version of French the French can’t grasp but I’ll get there – someday!

51. “It is perfectly possible to be enamored of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.” ― James Baldwin

Not that it’s the best thing but it’s totally possible not to get along with the French but still be madly in love with Paris.

52. “Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites.” ― Audrey Hepburn

53. “If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” ― Gossip Girl

At least you’ll be sad in a beautiful place and that beauty is likely to inspire joy that will bring a smile to your face.

54. “It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner.” ― Mindy, Emily in Paris

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

56. “Secrets travel fast in Paris.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

57. “ I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.” ― Cole Porter

Related post: Things to do in Paris in the summer

Inspiring Paris quotes

58. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”― Gustave Flaubert

59. “There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” — Rosecrans Baldwin

60. “To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.”― Sacha Guitry

61. “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

62. “ Paris is a divine section of eternity.” ― E. E. Cummings

Beautiful and Famous quotes for Paris

63. “If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

64. “Paris seems like a big city, but it’s really just a small town.” — Camille, Emily in Paris

65. “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.”  ― E.A. Bucchianeri

66. “Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” — Jeffrey Eugenides

67. “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux

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

69. “Paris by day, Paris by night, under sun or rain, Paris will always be …Paris! “ — Jules Renard 

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

71. “ Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason. ” — Maureen Johnson

72. “A little ‘bonjour’ goes a long way.” — Emily, Emily in Paris

73. “I am happy in Paris.” — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Final Thoughts on The Best Quotes on Paris

There you have it Paris lovers! I hope that these quotes about Paris inspired you to visit the city of love or at least gave you an idea about what famous writers, actors, and leaders felt about Paris!

Now it’s your turn! What is your favorite Paris quote? Let me know in the comments below.

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Esther is the face and voice behind Dreams in Paris! She has always been obsessed with Paris even before she moved there. She has lived in Paris for a couple of years, and that obsession has not changed! That love for Paris, plus her passion for writing led to the birth of Dreams in Paris! She now shares all the practical tips and guides she’s picked along the way to help you plan a memorable trip to the city of love! You can learn more about her here !

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34 Quotes About Paris That Will Have You Dreaming of France

These sayings also make for great travel captions for your Instagram pics.

In fact, Paris has such a hold on us, even if we're never visited, we're somehow so familiar with all that the revered city has to offer: the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Versailles Palace. That could be because Paris is so naturally breathtaking, it makes for the perfect backdrop for television and movies ( Emily in Paris , Sex and the City , The Da Vinci Code) .

It's hard to perfectly sum up the allure of such an unforgettable place, but our list of t he best Paris quotes definitely comes close. Here you’ll find musings from prominent literature, short quotes from famous movies and even a few funny phrases. Whether you’re aspiring to one day visit Paris and need the perfect Instagram caption , or are contemplating taking a much-needed family vacation , we have no doubt that after you scroll through all of these travel quotes you'll be inspired to go on your own Parisian adventure.

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Eve Chase, The Wildling Sisters

Every girl needs Paris.

Gaston Leroux

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

Honoré de Balzac

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Lee Radziwill

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

Louis Garrel

There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other.

Michael Kors

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

Natalie Portman

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

Audrey Hepburn

Paris is always a good idea.

Caitriona Balfe

It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.

Countee Cullen

Paris is a peerless city. Liberty, equality, fraternity are not only words. They express the spirit of which Paris is made.

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.

E.A. Bucchianeri

You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

Paris is a city where time is best to spend by doing nothing.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Francois Villon

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Gustave Eiffel

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Henry Miller

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

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

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141 VERY BEST QUOTES ABOUT PARIS

From the magnificent Louvre , sun-speckled Seine to the quaint cafés of St Germaine , Paris is a European city you’ll fall head over heels in love before long. Long been known as the most romantic city in the world, the charming ‘City of Light’ captures our imagination and makes our heart sing at the mere thought of this enchanting city.

The city of Paris is rich in historic heritage , iconic monuments , along with unique pride in the lively arts and culture scene. It’s influences in the world of art, fashion and architecture are far-reaching. Home to a plethora of attractions and activities, this contemporary city is laced with elegance, style , fine dining, exquisite wines and magical ambience that strucks a chord with all those who visit this great city.

First time visitors to Paris, be forewarned; the city will forever stay etched in your heart.

The alluring city of Paris carries the legacy of romance since the Age of Enlightenment, and aptly dubbed as the ‘ City of Love ‘. Entwined with the warmth of simple pleasures in life and the picturesque charm of a 2000-year old city, Paris has touched the hearts and minds of many in some ways who have penned a few words of their unquenchable love of the city.

Here are some of the most beautifully worded captions and quotes on Paris to inspire your journey. The grand selection of quotes about Paris in this post are also ideal to accompany your lovely photos on Instagram and other social media networks.

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As a hopeless romantic, I can’t help but begin this selection of quotes on Paris with one of my favourite from Sabrina (1954) , a Cinderella story, starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond …

1 | “I went for long walks and met myself in Paris” — Sabrina 1954.

Read along, enjoy our selection of the very best quotes on Paris, the ‘City of Love’.

LOVE QUOTES ON PARIS

Love quotes about Paris

2 | “It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” — Caitriona Balfe, An Irish actress and former fashion model

3 | “I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” — Alan Furst

4 | “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” — E.A. Bucchianeri

5 | “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” — Samantha Schutz,

6 | “Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.”  â€” Mary McAuliffe

7 | “There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other.” — Louis Garrel

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8 | “It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.” — Ninotchka

9 | “The heart of Paris is a flower. A flower of love so pretty that we keep in our heart, that we love for life.” — Charles Trenet

10 | “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” — Honore de Balzac, French novelist.

11 | “Paris just exudes love and romance and, for me personally, hope and joy and faith, too; it just means so much to me. That place made me feel so happy and so safe, and my spirit was just so full of joy.” — Ally Brooke

12 | “Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city.” — Christian Louboutin

13 | “I love Paris tenderly and am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

15 | “I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city… It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.” — Katherine Mansfield

Planning a romantic weekend in this grand city? Go here for some great ideas about things to do in Paris for couples .

Quotes about Paris

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16 | “That was the moment I fell in love with Paris and the moment that I felt that Paris had fallen in love with me.” — Paris, je t’aime (2006)

17 | “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.” — JFK, at a speech in SHAPE HQ, Paris, 1961.

18 | “I’ve never seen so many Americans in Paris before. The Champs-Élysées looks just like Main Street.” — An American in Paris, 1951

19 | “I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” — Adriana , Midnight in Paris

20 | “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” — Midnight in Paris, 2011

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON PARIS

Inspiring quotes about Paris

21 | “If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories!”  â€” Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

23 | “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.

24 | “I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” — M.J. Rose, The Book of Lost Fragrances

25 | “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.

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

27 | “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 French Poet & Novelist

28 | “Paris is the only place where I feel that I can lead a life that I can call my own.” — Joan Juliet Buck, American Actress and Writer

29 | “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris.” — Victor Hugo

30 | “Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and lust of the eyes” — Henry James

31 | “Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you.” — Pierre Assouline, French Writer & Journalist

32 | “Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes” — Lee Radziwill, An American socialite.

33 | “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 …” — Edward Hopper

34 | “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 Kapelke-Dale

35 | “La Vie en Rose. It is the French way of saying, ‘I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.” — Audrey Hepburn, Actress

36 | “…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything” — James Thurber, Author

37 | “Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station — the Gare D’Orsay — and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs-Élysées — nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” — Margaret Anderson

38 | “Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” — Courtney Maum

39 | “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, Poet

40 | “The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” — Oscar Hammerstein II

41 | “Paris may change, but in my melancholy mood, Nothing has budged! New palaces, blocks, scaffoldings, Old neighbourhoods, are allegorical for me, And my dear memories are heavier than stone.”  â€” Charles Baudelaire , ‘The Swan’, Part: ‘Parisian Scenes’, ‘The Flowers of Evil’.

42 | “Cities have gender: London is a man, Paris is a woman, and New York City a well-adjusted transexual.” — Angela Carter

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

44 | “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

45 | “But Paris is an ocean. Throw in a stone, but you’ll never know how deep it is.” — Honore de Balzac

46 | “Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” — Jeffrey Eugenides , The Marriage Plot: A Novel

47 | “Paris … There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself.” — Langston Hughes

48 | “Paris is a city where even the most outrageous story… is greeted with a verbal shrug: ‘Mais c’est normal!’”  â€” Edmund White

49 | “How sweet it is to see, across the misty gloom, A star born in the blue, a lamp lit in a room, Rivers of chimney smoke, rising in purplish streams, The pale of glow of the moon, transfiguring the scene.” — Charles Baudelaire, ‘Landscape’, Part: ‘Parisian Scenes’, ‘The Flowers of Evil’.

50 | “I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive There was nobody calling me up for favors And no one’s future to decide”  â€” Joni Mitchell, ‘Free Man in Paris’.

51 | “To know Paris is to know a great deal” — Henry Miller.

52 | “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, A Moveable Feast

53 | “When good Americans die, they go to Paris” — Oscar Wilde .

54 | “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

55 | “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman” — John Berger.

More – Inspiring Captions and Quotes about Paris

56 | “Paris is always a good idea” — Audrey Hepburn.

57 | “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in.

In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” — Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale.

58 | “The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small — to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways — to get it.” — Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon.

59 | “I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn’t very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.” — Jessye Norman.

60 | “Paris teach me of your love of your cobbled streets and rivers; teach me of your painters who sit by your bridges teach me of the gardens and the cafés and the treats teach me of the sun as it sets in the trees teach me for I will listen teach me and I will paint it with all the words it gives me.” — Atticus.

61 | “Paris is the city in which one loves to live.” — Margaret C. Anderson

62 | “After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.”  â€” James Baldwin

63 | “Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can’t leave.” — Edmund White

64 | “I was born in Paris, and I haven’t moved, except until now — I live in the suburbs and I hate it.” — Luc Ferrari

65 | “The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris.” — Anatole France

66 | “Let’s go to Paris.Take me there and never look back”  â€” Lana Del Rey

67 | “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” — Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

68 | “Lock me in your heart, and throw away the key.” — anon

69 | “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

70 | “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 Italy, Spain, or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” — Roman Payne

71 | “In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” — Jean Cocteau, French poet and novelist.

72 | “Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theatres, the cafés, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower.

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” — Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

73 | “I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature, and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.” — Rosecrans Baldwin, Author

74 | “Good talkers are only found in Paris.” — Francois Villon, a 15th century French poet, thief and vagabond.

75 | “I first came to Paris one year ago. It was 1899, the summer of love. I knew nothing of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler or Satine. The world had been swept up in the Bohemian Revolution. And I travelled from London to be part of it.” — Christian, played by Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge.

76 | “It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction — every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles and hour.” — Sylvia Plath, Author, The Bell Jar

77 | “There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once.” — James Joyce, An Irish novelist.

78 | “Oh I hated New York — that Park Avenue crowd — so I fled to Paris to work on my book, and I was always going to this café with Jean-Jacques, and Dickie used to play his saxophone outside and I would see him, and he would see me, and he would play My Funny Valentine.

It wasn’t until later that I realised he only knows about six songs.” — The Talented Mr Ripley, 1999

79 | “That’s what makes Paris, Paree” — April in Paris, 1952 musical.

80 | “Paris loves lovers” — Silk Stockings, 1957.

QUOTES ABOUT BRIDGES OF PARIS

With the meandering River Seine running through the heart of Paris, the city is home to thirty-seven bridges and footbridges spanning across the Seine, connecting the Left Bank and the Right Bank.

Amongst these are some of the well-known and the oldest in the city such as Pont Neuf (1578), Pont Marie (1604) and Pont Alexandre III (1900). Here are two of the most famous bridges quotes on Paris.

81 | “I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches” — James Fenimore Cooper.

82 | “It was always pleasant crossing bridges in Paris.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

QUOTES ABOUT PARIS AND THE CITY’S DELECTABLE FOOD

83 | “Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites.” — Audrey Hepburn

84 | “If you were in Paris, your food might as well glitter.” — Michelle Gable, Author

85 | “I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.” — Mary-Lou Weisman, Author

86 | “We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. “Wow,” he says after a minute. Then, “Wow,” again. I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.” — Kristin Hannah, Author

87 | “Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London and Paris. I am after that universally, that transcendence.” — Charlie Trotter, Author

Quotes about Paris and food

88 | “Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.” — Robin Leach, Author

89 | “In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook ‘la cuisine bourgeoise’ — good, traditional French home cooking” — Julia Child, Author

90 | “Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.” — M.F.K. Fisher, Author

91 | “When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.” — Alice Waters, Author

INSTAGRAM CAPTIONS: QUOTES ABOUT PARIS

92 | “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” — Victor Hugo

93 | “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace” — Natalie Lloyd.

94 | “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” — G.K. Chesterson

95 | “Just add three letters to Paris, and you have PARADISE” — Jules Renard .

96 | “Secrets travel fast in Paris”  â€” Napoleon Bonaparte.

97 | “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” — Adrian Leeds

98 | “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux , from the novel, The Phantom of the Opera.

99 | “We’ll always have Paris.” — Howard Koch, Casablanca, 1942

100 | “Every girl needs Paris.” — Eve Chase, The Wildling Sisters

101 | “Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” — Janice Macleod

102 | “Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.” — Maureen Johnson

103 | “America is my country and Paris is my home town.”  — Gertrude Stein

104 | “Paris is not a city, it’s a world” — King Francis I.

105 | “To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.” — Sacha Guitry

106 | “Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.” — Moliere

107 | “Paris by day, Paris by night, under sun or rain, Paris will always be … Paris!” — Jules Renard

108 | “The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.” — Hector Jesus Arencibia

109 | “There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” — Rosecrans Baldwin

110 | “I think there is a Paris inside us all.” — Douglas Coupland

111 | “I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.” — Cole Porter

112 | “A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day anywhere else.” — Unknown

113 | “I am happy in Paris.” — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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

115 | “Everything begins in Paris.”  â€” Nancy Spain

116 | “The best thing about London is Paris.” — Diana Vreeland

DREAM QUOTES ABOUT PARIS

117 | “Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real”  â€” Audrey Hepburn

118 | “Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere.” — Julien Green

119 | “Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” — Natalie Portman

120 | “Some may dream in colour, I dream in Paris.” — Unknown

121 | “Paris. City of Love. City of Dreams. City of Splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all” — Edward Rutherfurd

122 | “Paris streets at night … the kind of city you could carry off to bed with you, curl up with it as you gazed out your window into its lights and darkness, nestle into the haunting dream of it as you fall asleep.” — Laura Florand

TRAVEL QUOTES ABOUT PARIS

123 | “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant” — T.S. Eliot

124 | “England built London for its own use, France built Paris for the whole world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

125 | “I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.” — Romy Schneider

126 | “Like a book on a shelf I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me…” — Louisa Deasey , A Letter From Paris: A True Story of Hidden Art, Lost Romance, and Family Reclaimed.

127 | “I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.” — Michael Faudet, Author

128 | “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

129 | “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.” — Elizabeth Bard

130 | “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing…but that’s impossible.” — Christian Louboutin

131 | “The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country.

France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older — intelligence and good manners.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

133 | “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” — Wes Anderson

134 | “It is perfectly possible to be enamored of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.” — James Baldwin

135 | “You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.” — Lou Holtz

136 | “You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t.

Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights.

I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” — Owen Wilson

137 | “… you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. Wonder what it all means. You stumble, you soar. And if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” — Amy Thomas, Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light

138 | “A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” — Kate Simon

139 | “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.” — Vincent van Gogh

140 | “The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I’m there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him.

And then there is Botticelli’s sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.” — Paula Modersohn-Becker

141 | “It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Époque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan” — Julian Barnes, Author

Basic Experiences in Paris:

Eiffel Tower Guided Tour

Moulin Rouge Show & Champagne

River Seine Cruise

Skip-the-line Ticket to Sainte Chapelle

Eiffel Tower Summit + Louvre + River Cruise

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Paris Quotes and Captions

One of the most beautiful cities in the world, Paris is as magical as it can get. Many writers, philosophers, and artists across the world have successfully tried to encapsulate the essence of Paris in their words. Let’s see what they have to say about the City of Light and the City of Love.

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Famous Quotes About Paris

“Paris is always a good idea.” ~ Audrey Hepburn “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 “Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.” ~ Lee Radziwill “The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” ~ T.S. Eliot “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” ~ Gertrude Stein “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 “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 “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” ~ Adrian Leeds “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” ~ Thomas Jefferson “To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.” ~ Victor Hugo “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 not a city; it’s a world.” ~ King Francis I “To know Paris is to know a great deal.” ~ Henry Miller “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 Kapelke-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 “When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” ~ Oscar Wilde “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 “Cities have gender: London is a man, Paris is a woman, and New York City a well-adjusted transsexual.” ~ Angela Carter “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy—at home and in Paris.” ~ Ernest Hemingway “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” ~ Michael Simkins “Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.” ~ Willa Cather “When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.” ~ Henry Miller “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 “Paris is a divine section of eternity.” ~ E. E. Cummings “In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.” ~ Kanye West “A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on the last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” ~ Kate Simon “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” ~ John Berger “The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” ~ Oscar Hammerstein II “It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.” ~ Julian Barnes “Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.” ~ Whit Stillman “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.” ~ Elizabeth Bard “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 objects of which Paris folks are fond– literature, art, medicine, and adultery.” ~ Mark Twain “To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.” ~ Sacha Guitry “…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.” ~ James Thurber “Secrets travel fast in Paris.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte “The old Paris is no more.” ~ Charles Baudelaire “La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, ‘I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.” ~ Audrey Hepburn “Paris was all so… Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all – the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!” ~ David Nicholls “It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.” ~ Julia Child “What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!” ~ Charles Dickens “In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” ~ Jean Cocteau “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ~ Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” ~ G. K. Chesterson “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” ~ Paula McLain “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Paris was where the twentieth century was.” ~ Gertrude Stein “When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.” ~ Klemens von Metternich “In Paris, they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” ~ Mark Twain “If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” ~ Honoré de Balzac “There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once.” ~ James Joyce “The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” ~ Christian Louboutin “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 “Of course, I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?” ~ Djuna Barnes “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” ~ Gaston Leroux “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” ~ Victor Hugo “I love Milan because it’s my hometown. But Paris is the dream city: even when you’re stressed out in shows, you look around, and everything is so beautiful.” ~ Bianca Balti “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.” ~ Ernest Hemingway “Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” ~ Natalie Portman “Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.” ~ Joan Juliet Buck “I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles.” ~ Cole Porter “I’d sometimes go to Paris by myself – it was an easy two-hour train ride – to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.” ~ Chris Pavone “Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” ~ Jules Renard “Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” ~ Jeffrey Eugenides “If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” ~ Gossip Girl “Good talkers are only found in Paris.” ~ Francois Villon “The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning.” ~ George Orwell “It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.” ~ Ninotchka “Paris was the crossroads of the world.” ~ Lesley Blanch

Paris Travel Quotes

“I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” ~ Alan Furst “Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.” ~ Alan Furst “I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” ~ M.J. Rose “There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” ~ Rosecrans Baldwin “Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you.” ~ Pierre Assouline “At last, I have come into a dreamland.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe “Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back.” ~ Lana Del Rey “I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.” ~ Ann Voskamp “I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.” ~ Mae West “I am happy in Paris.” ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” ~ Wes Anderson “Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” ~ Courtney Maum “It is a good thing to go to Pari“ for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.” ~ Muriel Spark. “I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love, and eat ice creams in Paris.” ~ Michael Faudet “Like a book on a shelf, I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me.” ~ Louisa Deasey  “Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and lust of the eyes.” ~ Henry James “The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.” ~ Fred Allen “Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” ~ Janice Macleod “After Notre Dame, what is there?” ~ Ara Parseghisan

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Paris Quotes from Movies

“We’ll always have Paris.” ~ Humphry Bogart, Casablanca “You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe. Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” ~ Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris “Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” ~ Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina “That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” ~ Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris “Paris seems like a big city, but it’s really just a small town.” ~ Camille, Emily in Paris “ I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” ~ Midnight in Paris “Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me.” ~ Paris Je T’Aime “That’s what makes Paris, Paree” April in Paris “In Paris, you can buy beer at McDonald’s. Also, you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? … They call it a Royale with cheese.” ~ Pulp Fiction “Oh I hated New York – that Park Avenue crowd – so I fled to Paris to work on my book, and I was always going to this cafe with Jean-Jacques, and Dickie used to play his saxophone outside and I would see him and he would see me, and he would play My Funny Valentine. It wasn’t until later that I realised he only knows about six songs.” ~ Marge, The Talented Mr. Ripley “Paris loves lovers.” Silk Stockings

Eiffel Tower Quotes

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” ~ Gustave Eiffel “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” ~ Natalie Lloyd “The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.” ~ Hector Jesus Arencibia “I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier.” ~ Woody Allen “I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” ~ Bill Bryson “The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower.” ~ Suzy Kline

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Paris Food Quotes

“The shopping, the food, the views! Paris is a city that entrances us all—and I’m no exception.” ~ Michael Kors “It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner.” ~ Mindy, Emily in Paris “The French and their food. They put each meal on a pedestal.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis, Paris! “Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.” ~ Charles de Montesquieu “Everything ends this way in France – everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs – everything is a pretext for a good dinner.” ~ Jean Anouilh “I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!” ~ Barbara Fialho “I suddenly discovered that cooking was a rich and layered and endlessly fascinating subject. The best way to describe it is to say that I fell in love with French food- the tastes, the processes, the history, the endless variations, the rigorous discipline, the creativity, the wonderful people, the equipment, the rituals.” ~ Julia Child

Paris Instagram Captions

“Ooh La La!” “Paris is calling and I must go.” “Paris on my mind. “Paris, je t’aime.” “Paris is a city of dreams.” “Made it to the city of love.” “Paris, you’ve my heart!” “I visited the Louvre, but I didn’t like it – Mona Lisa was framed.” “Pardon my French” “This view never gets old.” “Brb, catching a flight to Paris.” “Prepare yourself for a million photos. Sorry, not sorry.” “Paris is so delicious they should call it the City of Bites.” “This is my new happy place.” “A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day in anywhere else.” “You had me at Bonjour” “I see London, I see France.” “Here for the views and croissants.” “I heard DaVinci and Michelangelo got into an argument, but it ended with a draw.” “I wish I was in Paris.” “Sorry for what I said when I wasn’t eating a crêpe by the Eiffel Tower.” “A bad day in Paris is better than a good day anywhere else.” “Take me to Paris.” “When I’m in Paris, the world is my oyster.” “A dream: a well-fit flat in Paris overlooking the Eiffel Tower.” “Take me back to Paris.” “Paris is for lovers.” “Le coup de foudre—love at first sight.” “There is no cure for Paris.” “Catching feels for this beautiful place.” “Okay, but first Paris.” “How can you complain in a place like Paris?”

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Paris Love Quotes

“It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” ~ Caitriona Balfe “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” ~ E.A. Bucchianeri “Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.” ~ Mary Mcauliffe “Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” ~ Samantha Schutz “There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there but love each other.” ~ Louis Garrel “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” ~ John Berger “Paris holds the key to your heart.” ~ Anastasia “At five o’clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.” ~ Anaïs Nin “To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won’t say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant – that, or somewhere totally secluded… in Paris.” ~ Betty Who “Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser — The only true language in the world is a kiss.”

Paris Sayings

“I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.” ~ John F Kennedy “I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” ~ Amy Thomas “Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.” ~ Marie Curie “I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don’t really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.” ~ Brian Fallon “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ~ Kristin Hannah “I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.” ~ James Fenimore Cooper “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.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh “For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for a living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.” ~ Alan Jay Lerner “Paris is paramount for fashion, always was – always will be.” ~ Manolo Blahnik “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 Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia . And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” ~ Roman Payne “You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.” ~ Dave Barry “My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.” ~ Henry Van Dyke “Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.” ~ Agatha Christie “Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” ~ Margaret Anderson “There was a florist at the corner, closed for the night. I stopped in my tracks, along with the heavy branches of Lilacs and tangled stems of forsythia was a fluffy mound of tiny sleeping chicks. A living, breathing easter basket. Paris continued to surprise me. Instead of the slick consumerism of twenty-first-century world capital, it was little things, the living things, that made me smile.” ~ Elizabeth Bard “Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” ~ Jack Kerouac “I love Paris tenderly and am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.” ~ Michel de Montaigne “Paris… is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to the time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere.” ~ Julien Green “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” ~ Gustave Flaubert “What you don’t know about Paris, is that when you live there, over time, an invisible thread forms around your heart, and so when you leave, it always tugs you back.” ~ Robert Black “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 lay beside you in the moonlight.” ~ Ernest Hemingway “Paris is a heaven for all woman’s obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptious pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.” ~ Kirsten Lobe “I first came to Paris one year ago. It was 1899, the summer of love. I knew nothing of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler, or Satine. The world had been swept up in the Bohemian Revolution. And I travelled from London to be a part of it.” ~ Moulin Rouge “Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you.” ~ Pierre Assouline

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” ~ James Thurber “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.” ~ John F Kennedy “I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” ~ Amy Thomas “Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.” ~ Marie Curie “I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don’t really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.” ~ Brian Fallon “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” ~ Kristin Hannah “I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.” ~ James Fenimore Cooper “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.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh “For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for a living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.” ~ Alan Jay Lerner “I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.” ~ Romy Schneider “Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!” ~ Christian Louboutin “It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour.” ~ Sylvia Plath

“Paris, I Louvre you” “PARadISe found.” “Going in Seine over Paris!” “What a Seine-sational city!” “Eiffel in love with this city at first sight.” “Oui just love Paris!” “Holy crêpe, Paris is amazing” “I’ve found Paris-dise.” “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame.” “In Paris, I Rue the day.” “In-Seine-ly beautiful” “Just looking for a Seine.” “In Paris, they give zero faux.” “I fell for the Eiffel Tower.” “Are you French? Because Eiffel for you.” “I Musee, the French have great taste in art.” “You must be from Paris because you’re driving me in-Seine” “In-Seine-ly beautiful sights.” “In Paris, Eiffel in love.” “Hey, Macaroona!” “Do you love Paris? I Pompidou.” “Paris has the best Pompi-Views in the world.” “Paris is a very France-y city.” “I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat”  “What’s not to Louvre about Paris?” “I gotta say, I’m starting to see the Point of the Louvre.” “Paris, I hope our paths croissant again.” “Enjoying life one crêpe at a time.”  “When in Paris, we only have breakfast of the Champignons.” “Breakfast of Champs-Élysées.” “In Paris, I wake up every day to a breakfast of Champignons.” “How could I baguette about Paris?” “Bring your jacket to Versailles, it’s very gold there!” “So sad to say Versailles to Paris.”

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Salut, my fellow Paris lover! Are you looking for inspiring quotes about Paris , or need some input for the best Paris quotes for Instagram to share your incredible travel snaps? You certainly came to the best place for Paris captions!

Paris is a marvelous city that is for centuries a true source of inspiration for writers, poets, and dreamers of all kinds. And how it is with creatives and romantics, the force of nature has them pour their hearts out and bless us with hundreds and thousands of beautiful Paris quotes.

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But is it surprising, though? Paris with its golden lights of street lanterns and the long shadows of the Eiffel Tower. With its art and beauty, but also with its tragic love stories and entangled history. The pompous lavishness of the grand boulevards and expensive storefronts, but also the unmissable poverty visible on every corner.

How can one not be inspired to feel and to bring out the most genuine Quotes on Paris?

Anyway, luckily, there were more talented people than me who poured their hearts out before and felt all the feelings and provided us with hundreds of magnificent Paris quotes to pick from to level up our Paris quotations games.

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Alright, let’s start with this list of the most famous Parisian quotes and the certainly most heartfelt Paris dream quotes!

The best Quotes on Paris to inspire and dream away

Whether you are looking for lovely sayings about Paris for a greeting card, or are intending to send a quote about Paris to a loved one about to set off on the trip of a lifetime. You are surely finding the perfect quote on Paris here.

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Maybe you are just seeking some inspiration for your upcoming trip to Paris to get in the mood, or want to dream away with some dream Paris quotes. Either way, have fun!

• “To know Paris is to know a great deal.” — Henry Miller

• “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.” — Thomas Jefferson

• “I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.” — Michael Faudet

The most famous quotes for Paris

• “We’ll always have Paris.” — Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

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

• “Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” — Paula McLain

• “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” — Victor Hugo

• “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, probably the most famous Hemingway Paris quote!

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Quotes about Paris to inspire your dreams

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

• “America is my country, and Paris is my hometown.” — Gertrude Stein

• “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” — G.K. Chesterson

• “Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina

• “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” — Adrian Leeds

• “Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.” — Ernest Hemingway

• “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” — Gossip Girl

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

• “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

• “You stumble, you soar. And if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” — Amy Howard

• “Paris is a divine section of eternity.” — E. E. Cummings

• “I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” — Alan Furst

• “Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back.” — Lana Del Rey

A quote on Paris that captures the melancholy

• “I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” — M.J. Rose

• “Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” — Janice Macleod

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

• “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” — King Francis I

• “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.” — Elizabeth Bard

• “Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” — Michael Simkin

• “Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” ― Courtney Maum

• “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.” — Gustave Flauber

“The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.” — Hector Jesus Arencibia

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

• “I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” — Kristin Hannah

• “Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” — Wes Anderson

• “Paris is a city where time is best to spend doing nothing.” ― Erich Maria Remarque

• “Paris – There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself.” — Langston Hughes

• “Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.” — Brian Fallon

• “Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” — Victor Hugo

 “It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” — Caitriona Balfe

• “What you don’t know about Paris, is that when you live there, over time, and invisible thread forms around your heart, and so when you leave, it always tugs you back.” — Robert Black

• “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

• “Secrets travel fast in Paris.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

• “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 Kapelke-Dale

• “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 Italy, Spain, or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” — Roman Payne

“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” — Jules Renard

• “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.” — Muriel Spark.

• “When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” — Oscar Wilde

• “At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful and because it was so useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir

• “I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” — Natalie Lloyd

• “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” — Christian Louboutin

• “It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.” — Melvyn Douglas

• “There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once.” — James Joyce

• “Paris holds the key to your heart.” — Anastasia

• “A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” — Kate Simon

• “The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – Oscar Hammerstein II

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” — Midnight in Paris

• “The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” — James Thurber

• “You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” — E.A. Bucchianeri

• “In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux

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

• “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac

• “Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” — Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

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

• “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.” – Vincent Van Gogh

• “There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” — Rosecrans Baldwin

One of the most perfect quotes about Paris France:

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

• “I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier.” – Woody Allen

• “Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre , Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” — Margaret Anderson

• “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” ― E. Y. Harburg

The longest quote about Paris is beautifully spot on:

• “ Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards, and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower.

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” — Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire

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The 24 Most Memorable Quotes About Paris

An ode to the city that has inspired so many great minds.

More than a mere spot on the map, it's a place that exists in the hearts and minds of all who have been touched in some way by its magical allure. To that end, here are 24 quotes about Paris from some of the poets , artists, writers, and thinkers who have captured the seductive essence of the City of Light with their words.

Vincent van Gogh

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here…the French air clears up the brain and does one good.”

Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse

“The streets of Paris had a way of making me stop in my tracks, my heart suspended. They seemed saturated with presence, even if there was no one there but me. These were places where something could happen, or had happened, or both.”

King Henry IV

“Paris is well worth a Mass.”

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

“Walking Paris is often described as reading, as though the city itself were a huge anthology of tales. It exerts a magnetic attraction over its citizens and its visitors, for it has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.”

Lee Radziwill

“When you see some sun, Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.”

Elliot Paul

“The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.”

“The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.”

Gertrude Stein

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

Thomas Jefferson

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

King Francis I

“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.”

Henry Miller

“To know Paris is to know a great deal.”

Ernest Hemingway

"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."

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”

“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy—at home and in Paris.”

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

John Berger

"Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman."

Julian Barnes

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.”

Natalie Lloyd

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”

James Thurber

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music. It is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.”

Napoléon Bonaparte

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.”

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We absolutely LOVE Paris – the City of Light, City of Love, and a city that symbolizes everything travel-related. There is something so romantic, and nostalgic about Parisian streets that are hard to shake off. We hope these 101 Paris quotes will inspire you to book that flight ticket, dream and teleport you to France!

Did you know Paris was originally called, ‘Parissi’? It was only after 887 that it came to be known as ‘Paris’. 

There is something magical about the city of Paris – from cute cafes, dreamy lanes, Seine River banks, gardens to the free-spirited vibes in the air! If you have not been there yet, these inspiring quotes about Paris will motivate you to plan that trip!

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“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” – Alan Furst

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

“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.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” – Natalie Lloyd

“To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.” – Sacha Guitry

“It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” – Caitriona Balfe

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

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

“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

“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – King Francis I

“Paris holds the key to your heart.” – Anastasia

“We’ll always have Paris.” – Howard Koch

“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.” – Klemens von Metternich

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

“In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” — Gaston Leroux

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

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” – Wes Anderson

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

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

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

Dreaming of Paris Quotes 

This is a compilation of Paris quotes about dreams of living, visiting, or experiencing the city. We have also included some of our favorite quotes about Paris that paints a vivid picture of ‘being there’ or ‘feeling of being there’ (making dreams come to reality)

“Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” – Natalie Portman

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

“Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“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 Kapelke-Dale

“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” – Jules Renard

“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” – Victor Hugo

“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 loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere.” – Julien Green

“In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” – Mark Twain

“Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.”- Anne Rice

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – Kristin Hannah

“I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.”- M.J. Rose

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

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”  – Margaret Anderson

Coffee in Paris Quotes

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards, and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes , giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” – Anne Rice.

Quotes about Paris in Literature, Movies, Art and Media

“I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier.” – Woody Allen, Everyone Says I Love You

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” – Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” – Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris

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

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“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 Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” – Roman Payne, Crepuscule

“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, A Moveable Feast

“I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” – Midnight in Paris

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

“Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back.” – Lana Del Rey

“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, Girls’ Guide to Paris

“…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.” – James Thurber

“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” – Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris

“We’ll always have Paris.” – Humphry Bogart, Casablanca

“If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” – Gossip Girl

“It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.” – Julia Child, My Life in France

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards, and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower.

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” – Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

Emily in Paris Quotes

Say oui to new possibilities –  Emily in Paris , a popular Netflix TV series – we binged watched as we waited for the world to open in 2020. Here are some popular Paris quotes from the show

“Paris seems like a big city, but it’s really just a small town.” – Camille, Emily in Paris

“I Like Paris, But I’m Not Really Sure Paris Likes Me.”

“It’s Paris. Everyone’s Serious About Dinner.”

“Paris is for cheese lovers.”

“You’re In Paris Now. I’m Sure We Can Find You Something Better Than Peanut Butter.”

Paris Quotes Funny

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

“Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can’t wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.” – Henry Miller

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

“Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger 

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“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.” – Elizabeth Bard

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

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel

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

More Paris Sayings and Captions

“The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – Oscar Hammerstein II

“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” –  Amy Thomas

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.” – Julian Barnes

“Paris was all so… Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all – the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks, and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!” – David Nicholls

“I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.” – Cole Porter

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” — Rosecrans Baldwin

“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” – Bill Bryson

“There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once.” — James Joyce

“Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.” – Marie Curie

“I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” — M.J. Rose

“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” – Kate Simon

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” — Christian Louboutin

“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 Italy, Spain, or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies, you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” — Roman Payne

Paris One Liners

“Pardon my French”

“Okay, but first Paris.”

“You had me at Bonjour”

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame”

“I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat.”

“Paris, I Louvre you”

“Oui just love Paris!”

“Holy crêpe, Paris is amazing”

“In-Seine-ly beautiful”

“Just looking for a Seine”

Quotes about Paris in French

“Paris, je t’aime.” (Paris I love you!)

“Paris est à proprement dire toute la France”.- Heinrich Heine (Paris is actually France.)

“Le vrai parisien n’aime pas Paris, mais il ne peut vivre ailleurs”. –  Alphonse Karr (A true Parisian does not love Paris, but can not live elsewhere.)

“A Paris, vois-tu, il vaudrait mieux n’avoir pas de lit que pas d’habit.” – Maupassant (In Paris, it is better to have no bed than no clothes.)

We hope you enjoyed this compilation of Paris captions and quotes. If you are planning a trip to Paris, don’t forget to read the following guides 

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Mayuri is the founder & editor of ToSomePlaceNew. An Indian-Canadian globetrotter, she has traveled to over 100 cities and 35+ countries. Mayuri has a graduate degree in History and is an MBA. She loves traveling the world, capturing historical nuances, and discussing that over a cup of coffee with her husband, Salil. She currently resides in Edmonton, Canada, and plots travel plans to Europe, the Americas, and beyond. 

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Table of Contents

• 1 Paris Quotes in Books and Literature
• 2 Short Paris Quotes
• 3 Short Captions About Paris
• 4 Paris Quotes About the Eiffel Tower
• 5 Inspirational Paris Quotes
• 6 Quotes About Paris at Night
• 7 Paris Quotes in Movies and TV 
• 8 Puns About Paris
• 9 Quotes About Paris and Love
• 10 More Famous Paris Quotes
• 11 Conclusion
• 12 PIN IT FOR LATER!

Last updated on December 10th, 2022

Looking for some Paris quotes to inspire a trip to the fabulous city? From short puns to famous sayings, you’ll find them all here.

Paris is easily the most romanticized city in the world. With its old buildings, roadside cafes, collection of art, and laid-back atmosphere, it is no wonder this magnificent city has captured so many people’s hearts.  

Writers and artists from all over the world have long ventured to Paris for inspiration. As a result, many wonderful and inspirational quotes about the City of Lights exist.

One of the most delightful places in the world, Paris is a place that everyone has to visit at least once to experience for themselves.

Although the thought of Paris is an inspiration in itself, here are some famous Paris quotes that may further inspire a trip to the city.

Paris Quotes in Books and Literature

“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, A Moveable Feast

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” – Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Even the majestic trees that graces and sheltered her streets were attuned to her – and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they would through her heart; so that the heart on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” – Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” – Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“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 much, has before and will always prevail… I stand with the City of Light now and forever.” – Doni Belau,  Girls’ Guide to Paris

“It seemed that in Paris you could discuss literature or architecture or great music with everyone form the garbage collector to the mayor.” – Julia Child,  My Life in France

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Short Paris Quotes

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – King Francis I

“Paris is a city where time is best to spend doing nothing.” – Erich Maria Remarque

“Lt’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back.” – Lana Del Ray

“Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” – Natalie Portman

“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” – Jules Renard

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” G.K. Chesterson

“A bad day in Paris is still a good day anywhere else.” – Unknown

“Paris – There you can be whatever you want to be. Totally yourself.” – Langston Hughes

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

Short Captions About Paris

“The City of Love has my heart.”

“Here for the views and croissants.”

“Pardon my French.”

“Paris is a city of dreams.”

“Paris is calling and I must go.”

“This is my new happy place.”

“How can you complain in a place like Paris?”

“I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat.”

“Greedy for love and macarons.”

“Paris is not just a city for lovers, but a city to fall in love with.”

“Paris: Perfect, Amazing, Radiant, Inspiring, Singular.”

“Some may dream in color, I dream in Paris.”

“Made it to the city of love.”

“I wish I was in Paris.”

“Paris, je t’aime.”

“Take me to Paris.”

“Okay, but first Paris.”

“You had me at Bonjour.”

Paris Quotes About the Eiffel Tower

“I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” – Natalie Lloyd

“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” – Bill Bryson

“I miss a lot about Paris. After three and a half years, you get a little sick of it, and you just want to be home. But there are little things, sights. Like seeing the Eiffel Tower every day, that’s kind of cool.” – Lindsey Horan

“Eiffel hard for this city.”

“The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.” – Hector Jesus Arencibia

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel

“Are you French? Because Eiffel for you.”

“The Arc de Triomple, the Eiffel Tower. They’re monumental. They’re straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.” – Billy Crystal

Inspirational Paris Quotes

“If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memories!” – Mehmet Murat İldan

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

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Nowt power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Bell Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.” – Julian Barnes

“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” – Amy Thomas

“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air. And Paris is a women’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.” – Henry Van Dyke

“Paris is the city which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station – the Gare D’Orsay – and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees – nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” – Margaret Anderson

“Like a book on a shelf I’d waited years to open, Paris had always been waiting for me…” – Louisa Deasey

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

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to daily here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” – James Thurber

“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 Kapelke-Dale

“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong. tome and all Paris belongs to me and. I belong to this notebook and this pencil.” – Ernest Hemingway

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

Quotes About Paris at Night

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

“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on the last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” – Kate Simon

“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 lay beside you in the moonlight.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.” – Roman Payne

“I can never tire of speaking of the bridges in Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.” – James Fenimore Cooper

Paris Quotes in Movies and TV 

“We’ll always have Paris.” – Howard Koch, Casablanca

“If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” – Gossip Girl

“Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” – Owen Wilson, A Midnight in Paris

“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“That Paris exists and anyone can choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” – Marion Cotillard, A Midnight in Paris

Puns About Paris

“Oui just love Paris!”

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame.”

“Paris, I hope our paths croissant again.”

“Paris, I Louvre you.”

“Holly crêpe, Paris is amazing.”

“You must be from Paris because you’re driving me in-Seine.”

Just looking for a Seine.”

“How could I baguette about Paris?”

“Paris – it’s a oui bit different.”

Quotes About Paris and Love

“You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“It’s true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.” – Caitriona Balfe

“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.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“There are only two places in the world where you can live happy: at home and in Paris.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.” – Mary Mcauliffe

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

“I love Paris for the million reasons that everyone loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” – Alan Furst

“There’s something about Paris, people just don’t have anything else to do there by love each other.” – Louis Garrel

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – Oscar Hammerstein II

“Paris holds the key to your heart.” – Anastasia

More Famous Paris Quotes

“Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” – Victor Hugo

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

“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” -Honoré de Balzac

“One of the first drawings I did in Paris – I wasn’t thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing – I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.” – Ellsworth Kelly

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” – Paula McLain

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

“You stumble, you soar. And if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” – Amy Howard

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” – Wes Anderson

“In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.” – Gaston Leroux

“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

“In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” – Mark Twain

“I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” – M.J. Rose

Paris is the most romantic city in the world and a place everyone should visit at least once. I hope these quotes inspire your next trip to the city of lights. Have more quotes you’d like to add? Comment below to add them to this list. 

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89+ Paris Quotes & Captions To Inspire Your Trip to the City of Lights

Looking for some fun and famous quotes about Paris? Well, look no further, as I’ve compiled this amazing list of Paris Quotes and Paris captions perfect for that next Instagram post!

Known as the love capital of the world, Paris, France is a romantic bustling city. From its narrow streets filled with picturesque coffee shops and cute bookstores to the sunny quays along the Seine.

In addition to its charm, it’s also a city famous for its culture, cuisine, art, architecture, and history. Paris is more than a spot on a map. It’s a place where your heart and soul are warmed as they have been touched by the magical city of love. For those who have never been to Paris but find themselves day-dreaming about it, I have made a list that captures the alluring essence of Paris.

May these Paris quotes inspire you to plan that unforgettable trip to the city of love and magic.

Paris Love Quotes

Love is an emotion that we all crave in our life. The world is surrounded by love. There are books, movies, and songs that are dedicated just to love.

Love can mean something different to each person. Some people are in love with a food dish, others are in love with another person. But you can also fall head over heels for a place – Paris proves that. Enjoy these Paris city of love quotes.

1. “Paris holds the key to your heart.” – Anastasia

2. “je taime.”- unknown, 3. “it’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be paris.” – caitriona balfe.

4. “If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

5. “you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or paris has failed to rub off on you.” – e.a. bucchianeri, 6. “the streets of paris had a way of making me stop in my tracks, my heart suspended. they seemed saturated with presence, even if there was no one there but me. these were places where something could happen, or had happened, or both; a feeling i could never have had at home in new york, where life is inflected with the future tense.” – lauren elkin, 7. “paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.” – mary mcauliffe, 8. “there was a florist at the corner, closed for the night. i stopped in my tracks. along with the heavy branches of lilacs and tangled stems of forsythia was a fluffy mound of tiny sleeping chicks- a living, breathing easter basket. paris continued to surprise me; instead of the slick consumerism of a twenty-first-century world capital, it was the little things, the living things, that made me smile.” – elizabeth bard, 9. “paris is a heaven for all women’s obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptious pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.” – kirsten lobe, 10. “like a book on a shelf i’d waited years to open, paris had always been waiting for me.” – louisa deasey, 11. “even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. paris is the city of love, even for the birds.” – samantha schutz.

12. “I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.” – M.J. Rose

13. “at night i would climb the steps to the sacre-coeur, and i would watch paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. i would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.” – simone de beauvoir, 14. “though you may leave paris, paris never really leaves you.” – janice macleod, 15. “there are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in paris.” – ernest hemingway, 16. “what you don’t know about paris, is that when you live there, over time, an invisible thread forms around your heart, and so when you leave, it always tugs you back.” – robert black, eiffel tower, paris quotes.

The Eiffel Tower is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and famous structures of Paris. You cannot visit the city of love without taking a picture of yourself with this beautiful piece of architecture. Here are some quotes you might like to use with your photo.

17. “Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.” – Brian Fallon

18. “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

19. “the eiffel tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. on a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. it has three elevators. each elevator can carry sixty-three people. it cost about one million dollars to build eiffel tower.” – suzy kline, 20. “you show up in paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you’re like, ‘this is so cool i want to see something i want to go to the eiffel tower’ and then you leave the next morning. you think, oh, i didn’t get to do anything. i tell people: i’ve been just about everywhere, but i’ve seen nothing.” – taylor lautner, 21. “the eiffel tower was once thought impossible to build.” – hector jesus arencibia, 22. “the arc de triomphe, the eiffel tower. they’re monumental. they’re straight out of page 52 in your school history book.” – billy crystal, 23. “i ought to be jealous of the tower. she is more famous than i am.” – gustave eiffel, 24. “although the french were very friendly and helpful. on one location we were to film at the top of the eiffel tower but we couldn’t, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. we couldn’t see a thing but we finally got it done.” – lalla ward, 25. “i like the eiffel tower because it looks like steel and lace.” – natalie lloyd.

Louvre Paris Quotes

The Louvre is a renowned museum in Paris, some would even say the most iconic museum in the world. With its unique angles and beautiful masterpieces of art, it should come as no surprise that people love taking photos here.

You obviously can’t post a picture without a great caption. I’ve compiled a list of best quotes about Paris’s popular museum, the Louvre.

26. “You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.” – Dave Barry

27. “there is no reason why the louvre should be your favorite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in france, any more than kew should necessarily be a favorite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.” – jim crace.

28. “The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.” – Jean Cocteau

29. “keep good company – that is, go to the louvre.” – paul cezanne, 30. “the louvre is the book in which we learn to read. we must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our minds from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.” – paul cezanne, 31. “destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the louvre to cook dinner.” – e. o. wilson, 32. “i went to the louvre in paris, and i saw all the paintings and the mona lisa. you don’t really see something like that every day. i was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. like, leonardo da vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. it had this crazy effect on me.” – brian fallon, 33. “i’ve been fifty thousand times to the louvre. i have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.” – alberto giacometti.

34. “The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn’t get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I’m still here.” – I.M. Pei

35. “i’ve been fortunate to have been in paris a dozen times, where i’ve gone to the louvre. i’m very big on impressionistic paintings.” – shawn crahan, 36. “i’ve been lucky enough to win an oscar, write a best-seller – my other dream would be to have a painting in the louvre. the only way that’s going to happen is if i paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen’s lavatory.” – david niven, 37. “i know my little ‘dirty drawings’ are never going to hang in the main salons of the louvre, but it would be nice if – i would like to say ‘when,’ but i better say ‘if’ – our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. then maybe i could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms.” – tom of finland, 38. “out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. they belong to anyone who can use them. loot the louvre a bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. we are not responsible. steal anything in sight.” – william s. burroughs, 39. “i remember being a student, and i would go every friday to the louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.” – jemima west, 40. “someday my paintings will be hanging in the louvre. [vincent van gogh]” – irvin stone, 41. “the louvre the louvre has me in its clutches. every time i’m there rich blessings rain down upon me. i am coming to understand titian more and more and learning to love him. and then there is botticelli’s sweet madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. and fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.” – paula modersohn-becker, 42. “the louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. the real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.” – paul cezanne, 43. “it took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the louvre.” – pierre-augustine renoir.

Fun Paris Sayings for Your Next Instagram Caption

We’ve all struggled with creating the perfect Instagram caption before. Here are some ideas to help you get over the creative block next time you snap a picture of Paris.

44. Are you Seine something?

45. the food in paris is brie-ond belief, 46. what a seine-sational city, 47. buy one, baguette one free., 48. paris is a very france-y city., 49. i couldn’t come to paris without my french coat., 50. in paris, eiffel in love., 51. life is pain au chocolat., 52. don’t jump into the water unless you want people to think you’re in seine., 53. paris, i hope our paths croissant again., 54. frankly, my dear, i don’t give a notre dame., 55. don’t baguette the cheese., 56. eiffel for you from day one, paris., 57. sometimes the french give me the crepes., 58. paris, i louvre you., 59. enjoying life one crêpe at a time., 60. i’m having a beret good time in paris., 61. eiffel in love with this city at first sight., 62. don’t come to paris with no monet., 63. breakfast of champs-elysees., 64. in paris, they give zero faux., 65. i’ve found paris-dise., 66. it was my greatest arc de triomphe., 67. paris – it’s a oui bit different., 68. going in seine over this city, 69. “if you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in paris.” – gossip girl, the most famous paris quotes.

There is a long supply of quotes about Paris, some of these are more known than others. That is why I’ve made a list of the most famous quotes about Paris below.

For advent Paris lovers, the quotes will come as no surprise to you. For those who are just starting to dip their toes into Paris, enjoy these cream of the crop quotes. 

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

71. “to study in paris is to be born in paris” – victor hugo, 72. “the bewildering beauty of paris…” – allen ginsberg, 73. “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.”- vincent van gogh, 74. “what an immense impression paris made upon me. it is the most extraordinary place in the world”- charles dickens, 75. “paris is always a good idea.” – audrey hepburn.

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

77. “to know paris is to know a great deal.” – henry miller, 78. “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, 79. “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, 80. “the last time i saw paris, her heart was warm and gay, i heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – oscar hammerstein ii, 81. “in paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” – jean cocteau, 82. “paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – king francis i.

83. “In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” – Christian Louboutin

84. “paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” –  michael simkin, 85. “the chief danger about paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” – t.s. eliot, 86. “secrets travel fast in paris.” – napoleon bonaparte, 87. “breathe paris in. it nourishes the soul.” – victor hugo, 88. “just add three letters to paris, and you have paradise.” – jules renard, 89. “in paris, our lives are one masked ball.” – gaston leroux.

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

91. “america is my country, and paris is my hometown.” – gertrude stein, 92. “london is a riddle. paris is an explanation.” – g.k. chesterson, 93. “the best of america drifts to paris. the american in paris is the best american. it is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. france has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners.” – f. scott fitzgerald, 94. “an artist has no home in europe except in paris.” – friedrich nietzsche, 95. “i had forgotten how gently time passes in paris. as lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. in paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – kristin hannah.

96. “Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” – Margaret Anderson

97. “when spring comes to paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.” – henry miller, 98. “you know, i sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. you can’t. because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that paris exists, these lights. i mean come on, there’s nothing happening on jupiter or neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. for all we know, paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” – owen wilson.

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As there is a long list of famous Parisian quotes, I have added what I think are the best quotes about Paris. If all of the quotes were added, you would have reading material for days. However, if you feel that I’ve missed a spectacular quote and that it should be added to my list, feel free to reach out to me via email or social media and I’ll see if I can add it onto the list!

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I don’t know what it is about Paris, but it is one of my favourite European cities. The whole place screams romance, sophistication and art, and I love it a little bit more every time I visit. Here are 25 beautiful quotes about Paris that perfectly capture what we love about the city to inspire your next trip.

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Beautiful Quotes About Paris

It’s no wonder that a city that has inspired so many artists, poets and writers is so often described in literature. As a result, there are so many beautiful quotes about Paris out there. If you’re looking for inspiration, here are 25 of my favourite quotes about Paris that perfectly articulate why we love the French capital.

“Paris is always a good idea.” Audrey Hepburn

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

It is true that there is so much to take in and learn from a visit to Paris. It’s such a timeless city where history blends seamlessly with modern. You’ll be amazed what a trip to Paris can teach you!

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

No matter how many times I visit Paris I’m not convinced I will ever “know” the city. With every trip it finds new ways to surprise me!

“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

“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” Owen Wilson

There’s so much vibrant life in Paris, it is hard to imagine there is anywhere in the universe that can compare. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit so many wonderful destinations, but something keeps drawing me back to Paris.

“We’ll always have Paris.” Howard Koch

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” G. K. Chesterson

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets–as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.” Anne Rice

It’s difficult not to think of Paris personified. The city has such a unique aura that it lives and breathes in our memories as real as a person we have met and conversed with. When the city is such a strong character, it’s no wonder it attracts so many writers.

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

Paris sounds like my idea of Heaven!

“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” Honoré de Balzac

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

An escape to Paris is always so diverse and varied, it certainly feels like a whole world is contained within the city. Paris is the perfect place to go if you want to forget about everything that is going on anywhere else because you get so lost in the place.

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

Paris is persistently seen as the home of the arts. It is almost a rite of passage for artists to spend time developing their crafts in the city.

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

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

I’m definitely addicted to Paris! The city has a buzz and an energy about it that is intoxicating and keeps drawing you back.

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

Paris has a familiarity of homeliness about it. Even if you’re visiting Paris for the first time, it feels like you’re being greeted by an old friend.

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.” Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Somehow I’ve never managed to visit Paris in the spring! But having seen beautiful images of the streets in bloom, it is easy to see how it must feel like paradise.

“Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” John Berger

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.” Julian Barnes

Every little detail of Paris is beautiful. There is nothing mundane or ordinary about any of it. It is when you start to see the beauty in the tiny details that you really start to appreciate the city.

“…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything.” James Thurber

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” Natalie Lloyd

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” Kristin Hannah

It’s true that there is an element of peace to be found in Paris, despite the fact it is a capital city. Paris seems to move at its own, unique pace.

“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

“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” Amy Thomas

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Oooh, I do love “London is a riddle, Paris is an explanation”. After living in London for a bit and visiting Paris, that seems to ring true to me.

It’s a great one isn’t it! I’m glad it rings true for you. I feel like all of these quotes do a wonderful job of capturing Paris, they all feel relatable!

My favorite quote about Paris was “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy—at home and in Paris.” Cannot wait to return to this wonderful city.

Me neither! I always feel drawn back to Paris over and over again. It definitely feels like home in a way. Hopefully we’ll be able to return soon!

I love Paris, my favorite city. And these quotes just make me miss it more right now, but also remember all the things I love about the city. The “we’ll always have Paris” one…have you read that book? It’s a true story, and really good.

Ooh no I didn’t know it had been used as a book title! I’ve done some digging and found it, it looks wonderful! That might be my next travel read…thanks for the tip!

I’ve never been to Paris, so I look forward to seeing these quotes live up to the billing. Thanks for sharing, I feel so excited to visit!

I hope you have an opportunity to visit Paris and I hope you love it as much as I do! It’s a wonderful city and I feel like these quotes do a great job of capturing Paris. Thanks for stopping by!

Paris is such a beautiful and romantic city and these quotes reminds me of it

Paris is a spectacular city, isn’t it? I love how romantic it is and I’m glad these quotes about Paris transported you there!

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200 Paris Quotes | The Best Quotes about Paris and Paris Captions

From the almost ethereal yet architectural beauty of the Eiffel Tower, to the crusty delights of buttery croissants and languid saunters along the Seine, Paris has captured the hearts of millions, as the capital city of France entices you with it’s haunting appeal. It’s no surprise then that there are hundreds of enchanting Paris quotes, and a slew of great Paris captions for Instagram out there.

As two travellers beguiled by the charming City of Love , we just had to publish some of the best quotes about Paris, and curate them here, in this hefty guide. So, whether you’re using them for a simple Instagram caption, or because you want to wax lyrical about Paris in a short video, or even pen a postcard,  here’s more than 200 of the best Paris quotes for you!

Top 10 Quotes about Paris

Don’t feel like devouring this entire article full of Paris quotes? We would love a scroll but, in case you’re in a tearing hurry, we’ve gone ahead and selected ten of our favorite Paris quotes below:

A bad day in Paris is still better than a good day in anywhere else.

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

If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris. Gossip Girl

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history. Anne Rice

Secrets travel fast in Paris. Napoleon Bonaparte

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

We’ll always have Paris. Howard Koch

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

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. Honoré de Balzac

You never forget your first trip to Paris.

Best Paris Quotes

None of those top ten tickle your fancy? Well let’s delve head first into a whole host of other Parisian-inspired quotes, with some of our absolute favourites below:

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am. Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Good talkers are only found in Paris. Francois Villon

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

I wish I could go to Paris right now. Emily J. Proctor

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. Gaston Leroux

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

It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris. Caitriona Balfe

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

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. John Berger

The bewildering beauty of Paris… Allen Ginsberg

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

The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build. Hector Jesus Arencibia

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. Paul Cezanne

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it. Rosecrans Baldwin

There’s a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you’re getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what’s going to happen next. Jessica Pan

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. Paula McLain

To be Parisian is not to have been born in Paris, but to be reborn. Sacha Guitry

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody. Lou Holtz

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Best Paris Captions for Instagram

Wanting to pair your perfect Paris photo with a cracking Instagram caption? Look no further. As passionate Instagrammer’s ourselves, we’re always on the lookout for short captions for Instagram that will work well on the feed. Here are a few great IG captions about Paris you could use:

A dream: a well-fit flat in Paris overlooking the Eiffel Tower.

BRB, catching a flight to Paris.

Catching feels for this beautiful place.

Going in Seine over this city!

Got the world at my fingertips.

Here for the views and croissants.

Hey, Macaroon-a!

Holy crêpe this was amazing.

How can you complain in a place like Paris?

How could I baguette about Paris?

I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat.

Keep calm and love Paris.

La vie est belle.

Let’s take a picture, it will last longer.

Looking forward to the memories of right now.

PARadISe found.

Paris is calling and I must go.

Paris, je t’aime.

Prepare yourself for a million photos. Sorry not sorry.

Take me back to Paris .

There is no cure for Paris.

This is my new happy place.

This view never gets old.

This view will do.

Up, up, and away into the clouds we go.

You had me at bonjour.

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Famous Paris Quotes

From acclaimed authors to poets, movie stars and a whole array of celebrities, Paris has had it’s fair share of famous faces visit, or live in the City of Love. And, they’ve all had a lot to say! With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the best Paris sayings from famous writers, actors and notable celebs, in this list below:

God has a plan for everybody’s life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason. Justin Tuck

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. Natalie Lloyd

I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while. Amy Thomas

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

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

I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil. Ernest Hemingway

I’d sometimes go to Paris by myself – it was an easy two-hour train ride – to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital. Chris Pavone

I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris. Michael Faudet

I’ve been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I’ve gone to the Louvre. I’m very big on Impressionistic paintings. Shawn Crahan

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. Elizabeth Bard

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?’ she will answer, ‘He is my child’. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l’amour! Vive l’animalisme! Vive le Diable! Marie Corelli

Paris is a city that entrances us all.

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

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]. Irvin Stone

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me. Marion Cotillard

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They’re monumental. They’re straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. Billy Crystal

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris! Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

When good Americans die, they go to Paris,’ the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. Karen Chance

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

You stumble, you soar. And if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while. Amy Howard

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa. Dave Barry

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City Quotes About Paris

The city itself is a joy to explore – from the bustling streets of Montmartre to shopping on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. One of the globe’s most recognisable hotspots, you might be scouring for a quote about the city of Paris? If so, check out the options we’ve curated below:

…the whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music…it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything. James Thurber

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh. Kate Simon

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

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee! Christian Louboutin

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind. Brian Fallon

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

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes. Mark Twain

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city… It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see. Katherine Mansfield

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris]. Thomas Jefferson

I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that! Barbara Fialho

I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around. Jemima West

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier. Woody Allen

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don’t really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me. Brian Fallon

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

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. Pierre-Augustine Renoir

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

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

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

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal’s heart). Charles Baudelaire

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything. James Thurber

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

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o’clock, and start writing at once. James Joyce

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. Vincent Van Gogh

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Romantic Quotes for your Paris trip

It’s not called the City of Love for nothing. From sunset boat rides on the Seine to marriage proposals on Pont Neuf, Paris is definitely a place blooming with romance. Channel that loving feeling with one of these slightly syrupy romantic Paris quotes:

… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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

In a committed relationship with my passport.

It’s midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. Melvyn Douglas

Le coup de foudre — love at first sight.

Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser — The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Let’s go to Paris/Take me there and never look back. Lana Del Rey

Made it to the city of love.

Meet you at the Eiffel Tower.

Paris is not just a city for lovers, but a city to fall in love with.

Paris is the destination for broken-hearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken. Whit Stillman

The City of Love has my heart.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place. Alan Furst

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M.J. Rose

Short Paris Quotes

With so much to behold, sometimes you just can’t encapsulate the essence of Paris without a lengthy, lovely quote. But, equally, often you just want to say it in a single breath. Keep it short with one of these brief (but brilliant) quotes about Paris:

After Notre Dame, what is there? Ara Parseghisan

Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul. Victor Hugo

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Charles de Montesquieu

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. R.I. Stevenson

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs. Roman Payne

Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn

Paris is not a city, it’s a world. King Francois I

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

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! Stephanie Perkins

Paris exists to remind you that your dreams are real.

Paris is a city of dreams.

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Dreaming of Paris Quotes

Whether you’re visiting for the first time or are a Paris aficionado who is often found traipsing along the picturesque pavements, you’ll always still dream of Paris when you aren’t able to be there in the flesh. The stuff that dreams are made of, we’ve gone ahead and captured that feeling, with these great inspiring quotes about Paris:

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 lay beside you in the moonlight. Ernest Hemingway

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 Kapelke-Dale

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

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. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets—as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her—and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris. Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

Paris is the only city where you can step out of a railway station —and see, the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—what other city offers as much as you leave a train? Margaret Anderson

At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless. Simone de Beauvoir

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. Kristin Hannah

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment. Wes Anderson

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

Funny Paris Quotes and Captions

Paris is usually all about romance, gourmet cuisine and the finer cultural things in life. But, like every major hub, there’s also a lighter side to the French capital. Elicit a giggle with one of these more amusing Paris captions and quotes:

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. Josephine Baker

Eiffel hard for this city.

Eiffel in love with this city at first sight.

Enjoying life one crêpe at a time.

Excuse my French, but I’m in France.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame.

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. Norman Schwartzkopf

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

I Musee, the French have great taste in art.

I think Eiffel for you.

I’m having a beret good time in Paris.

I’ve found Paris-dise.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain

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

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible. Christian Louboutin

It would be humiliating if Eifel in Paris.

Not one, but Toulieries!

Pardon my French.

Paris is a very France-y city.

Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can’t wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked. Henry Miller

Paris, I hope our paths croissant again.

Paris, I Lourve you.

Sometimes the French give me the crepes.

Sorry for what I said when I wasn’t eating a crêpe by the Eiffel Tower.

The food in Paris is Brie-ond belief!

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee. Regis Philbin

When I’m in Paris, the world is my oyster.

Do you love Paris? I Pompidou .

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Long Quotes about Paris

Earlier we said it best with some simple, short quotes about Paris. But, of course, there are more comprehensive sayings about the city, many of which can be found in novels dedicated to espousing the beauty of the place. Here are a few of our favourite quotes about Paris that are a little longer in length:

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks. Roman Payne

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn’t, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn’t see a thing but we finally got it done. Lalla Ward

I know my little ‘dirty drawings’ are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if – I would like to say ‘when,’ but I better say ‘if’ – our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms. Tom of Finland

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan. Julian Barnes

Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair; And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home. Henry Van Dyke

Paris was all so… Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all – the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French! David Nicholls

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower. Suzy Kline

Even More Quotes about Paris

You really couldn’t find a Paris quote to pair with your photo or update? Then you’re in luck! To close off this curated guide to the best Paris quotes, we’ve gone ahead and found even more little tidbits; sayings that are sure to perfectly outline what you’re trying to say about pretty Paris.

The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness. Émile Zola , La Curée

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us. Paul Cezanne

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I’m there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli’s sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors. Paula Modersohn-Becker

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction. Marie Curie

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly – it was all still, solemn and religious. Bayard Taylor

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you’re like, ‘This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!’ And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn’t get to do anything. I tell people: I’ve been just about everywhere, but I’ve seen nothing. Taylor Lautner

You’re going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you’re pointing at will be our winner.” “I’ve played that game once before. Ended up–” Paris shuddered. “Never mind. It’s not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no. Gena Showalter

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66 Famous French quotes about travel

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• Post author: Nassie Angadi

If you love to travel and dream of exploring France and other places around the world, you are going to love these famous French quotes about travel.

From renowned writers capturing the spirit of travel, they emphasize the transformative power of exploration. There is nothing like the allure of adventure, and the enrichment it brings to our lives.

So for those who like to step outside our comfort zones, embrace the unknown, and open the heart to new perspectives, here are the most famous French quotes about travel. Allons-y!

1. Voyager, c’est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

Translation: “To travel is to be born and die at every moment.” – Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo is of course one of the most renowned French writers the country has produced along with being a poet, novelist, and playwright. The writer of Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame was also a politician.

This quote might have been in reference to his banishment when  Napoleon III  took control of France in 1851 and Victor Hugo found himself banished as a traiter in exile.

2. Voyager c’est vivre.

Translation: “Traveling, it is living”. – Gustave Nadaud.

Gustave Nadaud was a 19th century French composer who captures the essence of what lovers of travel already know: the sentiment of feeling alive.

3. On ne fait pas un voyage, c’est le voyage qui nous fait.

Translation: “We do not make a journey, the journey makes us.” – Nicolas Bouvier

Nicolas Bouvier was a francophone Swiss-born writer and traveler who spent several years in France. He was known for his photography and travel writings.

4. Dans le voyage, il n’y a pas de certitude, seulement de l’aventure.

Translation: “In travel, there is no certainty, only adventure.” – Anonymous

The road less traveled can never be predicted, but it will certainly be full of bumps and surprises.

5. Rien ne développe l’intelligence comme les voyages.

Translation: “Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola

Emile Zola has been a household name in France dating back to the early 20th century, both for his writings and his political advocacy. This famous travel quote perhaps can be interpreted as an unkind comment to those who do not venture out of their comfort zone.

6. Il est certain qu’il faut voyager.

Translation: “Of course you have to travel.” – Voltaire

The celebrated writer Voltaire leaves no doubt about his feelings, with an emphasis that leaves no room for argument.

7. On voyage pour changer, non de lieu, mais d’idées.

Translation: “We travel to change, not places, but ideas.” – Hippolyte Taine

Dating back to the 19th century, Hippolyte Taine was a French historian, critic and philosopher. At a time when travel was not as widespread, Taine advocates why everyone should go on an expedition.

8. Le monde est un livre et ceux qui ne voyagent pas n’en lisent qu’une page.

Translation: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine was an early Christian theologian and philosopher from the 4th century, who would go on to become a saint. His famous quote about travel however, still remains relevant today.

9. Voyager rend modeste. On voit mieux la place minuscule que l’on occupe dans le monde.

Translation: “Traveling makes one modest. You see the tiny place you occupy in the world more clearly.” – Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a prominent French novelist from the 19th century. He notes how much small we seem in the larger scheme of things, after having explored another part of the world.

10. Paris est toujours une bonne idée.

Translation: “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

The incontournable (unmissable) Audrey Hepburn, in the movie Sabrina said this famous quote about Paris in 1954 as she heads off to culinary school , and it still rings true.

Later in the film she explains: “Paris is for changing your outlook, for throwing open the windows and letting in la vie en rose .”

11. On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage.

Translation: “One cannot discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” – André Gide

André Gide was a French author who won the 1947 Nobel laureate in literature. Whether by plane or boat, it is true that you can’t go anywhere without losing sight of ‘home’ at least for a while.

12. Voyager est un triple plaisir : l’attente, l’éblouissement et le souvenir.

Translation: “Traveling is a triple pleasure: the anticipation, the astonishment, and the recollection.” – Ilka Chase

Ilka Chase was an American actress, but this quote is often associated with her in French citations about travel.

13. Le plus beau voyage, c’est celui qu’on n’a pas encore fait.

Translation: “The most beautiful journey is the one you haven’t taken yet.” – Loïck Peyron

Loïck Peyron is a French yachtsman and one of the most accomplished sailors in the world. He has won several competitions over his long career racing across the world.

14. Voyager, c’est grandir. C’est la grande aventure. Celle qui laisse des traces dans l’âme.

Translation: “To travel is to grow. It is the great adventure. The one that leaves traces in the soul.” – Marc Thiercelin

Marc Thiercelin is a French sailor and renowned solo yacht racer. He has done several solo rounds of the world and transatlantic races, so he certainly knows how to go on an adventure.

15. Le monde est un miroir. Si tu lui souris, il te sourira.

Translation: “The world is a mirror. If you smile at it, it will smile back at you.” – Louis Nucera

Louis Nucera was a famous French writer and cyclist, who won the the Grand Prize for Literature from the French Academy in 1993.

16. Voyager, c’est vivre deux fois.

Translation: “To travel is to live twice.” – Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher and writer who won the the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of his most famous books is T h e Stranger .

17. Le plus court chemin d’un point à un autre est la ligne droite. Mais le vrai chemin est celui que l’on découvre en se perdant.

Translation: “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But the true path is the one you discover by getting lost.” – Jacques Prévert

Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter, who definitely knew the benefits of heading onwards without direction.

18. Voyager, c’est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

This famous French travel quote from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables , talking about the ups and downs of life.

19. Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux.

Translation: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a prominent 20th century French novelist and essayist. This beautiful quote talks about how traveling has the ability to change ones outlook on life.

20. Les voyages sont la meilleure façon d’acheter des souvenirs.

Translation: “Traveling is the best way to purchase memories.” – François Cavanna

François Cavanna was a French author and journalist, and here he isn’t talking about physical souvenirs , but the ones in our heads.

21. L’important n’est pas la destination, c’est le voyage.

Translation: “The important thing is not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was a renowned French philosopher , playwright, and novelist.

22. Les voyages forment la jeunesse.

Translation: “Travel shapes youth.” – Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French philosopher and writer. This interesting quote advocates travel for the young (and the young at heart.)

23. Le monde est un livre ouvert à tous ceux qui savent lire.

Translation: “The world is an open book to all those who know how to read.” – René Barjavel

René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic. He is well known for having exploring the existential concepts of time travel.

24. Le vrai voyageur ne sait pas où il va.

Translation: “The true traveler doesn’t know where he is going.” – Anonymous.

If you don’t know where you are heading, you may be a traveler (and not a tourist.)

25. Le voyage est une espèce de porte par où l’on sort de la réalité comme pour pénétrer dans une réalité inexplorée qui semble un rêve.

Translation: “Travel is a kind of door through which we exit reality, as if entering an unexplored reality that seems like a dream.” – Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant was a French writer known for his short stories, inspired by the explorers of the past.

26. On ne peut pas voir le monde en restant assis dans un coin.

Translation: “You cannot see the world by sitting in a corner.” – Anonymous

As the joke in French goes, what can see the world while staying in a corner? Only a postage stamp!

27. Ajouter deux lettres à Paris, c’est le paradis.

Translation: “Adding two letters to Paris is paradise.” – Jules Renard

Of course this only works in French, in English you would have to add a few more letters!

28. Voyager sans rencontrer l’autre, ce n’est pas voyager, c’est se déplacer.

Translation: “To travel without meeting the other is not to travel, it is to move.” – Alexandra David Neel

29. Il n’y a d’homme plus complet que celui qui a beaucoup voyagé, qui a changé vingt fois la forme de sa pensée et de sa vie.

Translation: “There is no more complete man than one who has traveled a lot, who has changed the shape of his thought and his life twenty times over.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

30. Ce n’est que dans l’aventure que certaines personnes réussissent à se connaître – à se retrouver.

Translation: “It is only in adventure that some people manage to know each other – to find each other.” – André Gide

31. Le voyageur voit ce qu’il voit, le touriste voit ce qu’il est venu voir. 

Translation: “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he came to see.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

32. N’ayez jamais peur de la vie, n’ayez jamais peur de l’aventure, faites confiance au hasard, à la chance, à la destinée.

The quote continues: “Partez, allez conquérir d’autres espaces, d’autres espérances. Le reste vous sera donné de surcroît.”

Translation: “Never be afraid of life, never be afraid of adventure, trust chance, luck, destiny. Leave, conquer other spaces, other hopes. The rest will be given to you in addition.” – Henry de Monfreid

33. Jamais je n’ai tant pensé, tant existé, tant vécu, tant été moi-même, si j’ose ainsi dire, que dans les voyages que j’ai faits seul ou à pied. 

Translation: “Never have I thought so much, existed so much, lived so much, been so much myself, if I dare say so, than in the journeys I have made alone or on foot.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

34. Les gens ont peur. La peur, c’est l’ignorance. Alors, plus on est éduqué, plus on voyage, plus on parle de langues, moins on est ignorant, donc moins on a peur.

Translation: “People are scared. Fear is ignorance. So, the more educated you are, the more you travel, the more languages ​​you speak, the less ignorant you are, so the less afraid you are.” – Robert Lepage

35. Un des grands malheurs de la vie moderne, c’est le manque d’imprévu, l’absence d’aventures.

Translation: “One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the lack of the unexpected, the absence of adventures.” – Théophile Gauthier

36. L’aventure c’est le trésor que l’on découvre à chaque matin.

Translation: “Adventure is the treasure we discover every morning.” – Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel is a Belgium singer who sang the classic French love song “Ne me quitte pas”, which is one of the most famous songs of all time.

37. Qu’est-ce qu’en général qu’un voyageur ? C’est un homme qui s’en va chercher un bout de conversation au bout du monde. 

Translation: “What is a traveler in general? He is a man who goes to find a piece of conversation at the end of the world.” – Barbay d’Aurevilly

38. De tous les livres, celui que je préfère est mon passeport, unique in octavo qui ouvre les frontières.

Translation: “Of all the books, the one I prefer is my passport, unique in octavo which opens the borders.” – Alain Borer

39. Sans l’incertitude l’aventure n’existerait pas.

Translation: “Without uncertainty, adventure would not exist.” – Alain Séjourné

40. De tous les livres, celui que je préfère est mon passeport, unique in octavo qui ouvre les frontières.

Translation: “Of all the books, the one I prefer is my passport, unique in octavo which opens the borders.” – Alain Borer

41. L’une des choses que j’apprécie le plus quand je voyage à l’étranger, c’est de penser que je vais retourner en France. 

Translation: “One of the things I appreciate the most when I travel abroad is to think that I will return to France.” – Pierre Daninos.

In other words, absence makes the heart grow fonder. A voyage away from France makes home seem so much warmer. You can read more quotes about France here.

42. Vis pour voyager et voyage pour vivre.

Translation: Live to travel and travel to live. – Anonymous.

This famous quote is a variation of that other famous motto “work to live, not live to work”.

43. La vérité existe au-delà des montagnes, pour la connaître, il faut voyager.

Translation: “The truth exists beyond the mountains, to know it, you have to travel.” – Elizabeth Finney

44. La vie est un long champ à cultiver. Voyager, c’est y semer la diversité de la Terre. Voyager, c’est l’embellir des couleurs du monde.

Translation: “Life is a long field to cultivate. To travel is to sow the diversity of the Earth. To travel is to embellish it with the colors of the world.” – Jules Lesven.

45. En somme, je m’aperçois que les voyages, ça sert surtout à embêter les autres une fois qu’on est revenu!

Translation: “In short, I realize that traveling is mainly used to annoy others once you have returned!” – Sacha Guitry.

A funny french travel quote about being forced to listen to others travels stories, with envy and boredom.

46. Voyager rend modeste. Vous voyez quelle petite place vous occupez dans le monde.

Translation: “Traveling makes you modest. You see what a small place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert.

We all feel a little smaller when gazing at the moon and the stars, as this well known quote suggests.

47. Voyager c’est découvrir que tout le monde se trompe sur les autres pays.

Translation: “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley.

Another funny quote which speaks to how much the French are actually very fond of La Belle France , even though they may not always show it.

48. Qui a l’habitude de voyager… sait qu’il arrive toujours un moment où il faut partir. 

Translation: “Who is used to travelling… knows that there always comes a time when you have to leave.” – Paolo Coelho.

49. Voyager – cela vous laisse sans voix, puis vous transforme en conteur.

Translation: “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

50. Si vous pensez que l’aventure est dangereuse, essayez la routine. Elle est mortelle!

Translation: “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. She is lethal!” – Paulo Coelho.

51. Les voyages sont la partie frivole de la vie des gens sérieux, et la partie sérieuse des gens frivoles. 

Translation: “Travel is the frivolous part of serious people’s lives, and the serious part of frivolous people.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine

52. Nous ne voyageons pas pour échapper à la vie, mais pour que la vie ne nous échappe pas.

Translation: “We do not travel to escape life, but so that life does not escape us.” – Anonymous.

53. Trouvons un bel endroit pour se perdre.

Translation: “Let’s find a nice place to get lost.” – Anonymous.

54. Où que tu ailles, vas-y de tout ton coeur.

Translation: “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Anonymous.

I think this quote can probably apply to a lot of things, including travel.

55. Celui qui voyagerait avec bonheur devait voyager léger.

Translation: “Whoever travels happily should travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of Le Petit Prince .

56. Chaque voyage est le rêve d’une nouvelle naissance. 

Translation: “Every journey is the dream of a new birth.” – Jean Royer

57. Tous ceux qui errent ne sont pas perdus.

Translation: “Not all who wander are lost.” – John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

58. Je n’ai pas encore été partout, mais c’est sur ma liste!

Translation: “I haven’t been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list!” – Susan Sontag.

The famous words of every tried-and-true traveler who wants to see it all.

59. Quiconque ne visite pas Paris, ne deviendra jamais vraiment élégant.

Translation: “Anyone who does not visit Paris will never become truly elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac.

I think anyone who has been shopping in Paris and visited these famous fashion houses (or these less expensive ones ) will agree!

60. Le voyage est la seule chose qu’on achète qui nous rend plus riche.

Translation: “Travel is the only thing we buy that makes us richer.” – Anonymous.

61. La vérité est au delà des montagnes, pour la trouver il faut voyager!

Translation: “The truth is beyond the mountains, to find it you have to travel!” – Anonymous.

62. On a tous quelqu’un que l’on aime et qui habite trop loin.

Translation: “We all have someone we love who lives too far away.”

63. Le vrai voyageur n’a pas de plan établi et n’a pas l’intention d’arriver.

Translation: “The true traveler has no set plan and no intention of arriving.” – Lao Tseu.

64. Au premier voyage on découvre, au second on s’enrichit. 

Translation: “On the first trip we discover, on the second we are enriched.” – Anonymous.

65. Ma chose préférée à faire est d’aller là où je n’ai jamais été. Le voyage apporte de l’amour et du pouvoir dans votre vie. 

Translation: “Ma chose préférée à faire est d’aller là où je n’ai jamais été. Le voyage apporte de l’amour et du pouvoir dans votre vie.” – Anonymous

66. Les emplois remplissent votre poche, les aventures remplissent votre âme.

The quote continues: “Une fois par an, allez dans un endroit où vous n’êtes jamais allé auparavant”.

Translation: “Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul. Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

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150 Dreamy Paris Quotes for Instagram

Need a little caption help for social media? These Paris quotes for Instagram will make you fall in love with the city all over again!

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Paris Quotes for Instagram

Ahh Paris… The city of love and romance. It’s everyone’s dream to visit at least once.

When I studied in Lyon, I would often take weekend trips to the capital to sip coffee and people watch in Le Marais.

From iconic landmarks and world-class museums to incredible food and delicious wines, it’s easy to see why Paris is so well adored.

Best Quotes About Paris

• Paris is a city of dreams.
• There’s Paris… And then there’s everywhere else.
• Paris exists to remind you that dreams come true.
• In search of cafes, croissants, and the Eiffel Tower.
• I have Paris written in my heart.
• Paris is the only city that you can love unconditionally.
• Paris is calling and I must go.
• Here for the views and croissants.
• Enjoying life one crêpe at a time.
• Brb, catching a flight to Paris.
• Paris is my new happy place.
• A bad day in Paris is better than a good day anywhere else.
• You never forget your first trip to Paris.
• How can you complain in a place like Paris?
• Currently in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
• Doing this sweet thing called visiting Paris.

Short Paris Quotes

• Life is short, go to Paris!
• Paris, je t’aime.
• When in doubt, go to Paris.
• Beautiful Paris.
• Paris life.
• From Paris with love.
• Take me to Paris.
• Paris through my eyes.

• There is no cure for Paris.
• Parisian nights be like this!
• Always dreaming of Paris.
• Paris on my mind.
• I can’t stop thinking of Paris.
• Unforgettable Paris.
• You had me at bonjour.
• Pardon my French.
• Okay, but first Paris.
• Paris is my therapy.
• I wish I were in Paris.
• Keep calm and love Paris.
• Life is pain au chocolat.
• A one way ticket to Paris.
• Travel to Paris? Check.
• You can’t go wrong with Paris.
• All roads lead to Paris.
• Take me back to Paris.
• If lost, return to Paris.
• Unapologetically loving Paris.

Quotes About Eiffel Tower

• Meet you at the Eiffel Tower.  
• If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good view of the Eiffel Tower.
• No view can make me fall in love with it but, surely the view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower does.
• Eiffel Tower at night is pure magic.

• Seeing the Eiffel Tower shine at night, I don’t think I’ve seen anything more magical!
• I’m not the same since seeing the Eiffel Tower shine at night.
• Here’s another Eiffel Tower photo to brighten up your day.
• Greetings from the prettiest tower on the planet.
• Enjoying a bird’s eye view from the Eiffel Tower.
• Climbing the Eiffel Tower? Check!
• You’ve not been to Paris if you didn’t see the Eiffel Tower.
• It feels like I am on top of the world.
• Relationship status: crushing on the Eiffel Tower.
• I’m just a girl, standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, asking it to love me.
• There’s something so magical about the Eiffel Tower.
• 674 steps afterward and I am still happy!
• This view never gets old.
• The best way to see Paris is from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
• Call it a cliché but you can’t go to Paris and not climb the Eiffel Tower.
• It might be dressed in iron, but the beauty of this landmark will melt your heart.

Paris Love Quotes

• Paris is for lovers.
• All you need is love and a vacation in Paris.
• Paris is not just a city for lovers, but a city to fall in love with.
• Find someone who looks at you like I look at Paris.
• I love you to Paris and back!

City of Love Paris Captions

• The City of Love has my heart.
• Made it to the City of Love.
• No wonder it’s called the City of Love!

Paris Quotes in French

• La vie est belle. (Life is beautiful.)
• Le coup de foudre. (Love at first sight.)
• Paris c’est pas la France, c’est Paris. (Paris is not France, it is Paris.)
• Tout commence à Paris. (Everything begins in Paris.)
• “Respirer Paris, cela conserve l’âme.” – Victor Hugo. (Breath in Paris, it nourishes the soul.)
• “Ajoutez deux lettres à Paris, et c’est le paradis.” – Jules Renard. (The direct English translation is “Add two letters to Paris and it’s paradise.” Or, if you want to use the English version of this quote, “Add three letters to Paris and it’s paradise.”)
• L’amour de ma vie. (Love of my life.)
• Au revoir, Paris mon amour! (Goodbye Paris, my love!)

• I’ve found Paris-dise.
• PARadISe found.
• Paris is a very France-y city.
• I’m starting to France-y this city.
• In Paris, Eiffel in love.
• Eiffel in love with this city at first sight.
• Eiffel hard for this city.
• I think Eiffel into Paris-dise.
• Are you French? Because Eiffel for you.
• I came to Paris to find Louvre.
• Paris, I Louvre you.
• What’s not to Louvre about Paris?
• Paris is the City of Louvre.
• Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame.
• You must be from Paris because you’re driving me in-Seine.
• Going in-Seine over this city!
• What a Seine-sational city!
• In-Seine-ly beautiful.

• Breakfast of Champs-Élysées.
• When in Paris, we only have breakfast of the Champignons.
• Holy crêpe, Paris is amazing.
• The food in Paris is brie-ond belief!
• I will never baguette this place.
• How could I baguette about Paris?
• Oui just love Paris!
• Don’t come to Paris with no Monet.
• I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat.
• I’m having a beret good time in Paris.
• I will never get Bordeaux of Paris.
• Paris, I hope our paths croissant again.

More Funny Quotes About Paris

• Sorry for what I said when I wasn’t eating a crêpe by the Eiffel Tower.  
• I visited the Louvre, but I didn’t like it… Mona Lisa was framed.
• I heard DaVinci and Michelangelo got into an argument, but it ended with a draw.
• My name’s not Emily, but catch me in Paris.
• Paris feels like a love affair you never want to leave.
• I tried to take a cute pic in front of the Eiffel Tower, but I accidentally got photobombed by a baguette.

Other Paris IG Captions

• Excuse my French, but I’m in France.
• Paris is the solution to all my problems.

• Greedy for love and macarons.
• I left Paris, but Paris hasn’t left me.
• Falling in love with Paris is inevitable.
• When I’m in Paris, the world is my oyster.
• She has that certain je ne sais quoi.
• Paris is a movie. I’m the main character.
• Paris is a dream and I don’t want to wake up.
• Wandering the streets of Paris feels like I’m in a dream.
• I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.
• I can’t believe it took me this long to travel to Paris!
• Paris is a real dream.
• Dreams do come true in Paris.  
• I know exactly where my heart is: Paris.
• One glass of wine in Paris and everything falls into place.
• Paris is not an option, it is a damn choice.
• I’m falling in love with Paris all over again!

Famous Sayings About Paris

• “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn.
• “If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” – Gossip Girl.
• “But Paris after midnight… Is magic.”  – Midnight in Paris.
• “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” – G.K. Chesterton.
• “Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.” – Lee Radziwill.
• “We’ll always have Paris.” – Humphrey Bogart.
• “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy – at home and in Paris.” – Ernest Hemingway.
• “When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” – Oscar Wilde.
• “Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – King Francis I.
• “To know Paris is to know a great deal.” – Henry Miller.
• “Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger.
• “It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” – Adrian Leeds.
• “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
• “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” – Thomas Jefferson.

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Inspirational travel quotes to fill your sails.

There are key phrases you pass through when planning a trip. First, your wanderlust grows into a pang you can’t ignore. You put a budget together and decide it’s finally time to get going. You start planning, and excitement builds … but then, you look over the crest of your euphoria and see the downward plunge of the roller coaster pre-departure loose ends.

If you’re traveling to a different country and don’t speak the language, for example, you suddenly wonder, how well will you navigate signs? You also start asking, will your budget be enough? Have you thought of every plan B for missed flights, buses, and trains? Will you get all your work done before you leave?

The best travel quotes are the inspirational ones that remind you why you set sail in the first place. Choose your favorite quotes to use as a regular reminder of your “why.”

Henry Miller

Are you excited about going to a new place, or more excited about specific experiences you’ll have there?

Use this educational Seneca quote on a poster for a classroom or on a flyer for something like a language learning course.

Travel takes courage, especially when flying solo or going to new places with a change of language. The only way to experience something great, though, is to push outside your comfort zone.

Alexander Sattler

We all have friends who spend entire paychecks on trips. Where we travel, how often, and at what cost all tell us something about our priorities.

Asian Proverb

No number of photos of a famous place will ever satisfy the desire you have to see it.

Clint Borgen

You can also learn more about yourself when you venture outside of your daily routine. This quote can make for an interesting opener in a letter you write to friends while abroad.

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Travel quotes for Instagram that you’ll want to share.

The vibe of your Instagram feed might be just for friends and family, or you might be a maestro of hashtags who shares content with a growing community of followers. Travel quotes for Instagram cover the gambit from inspiring “live out of a suitcase” influencers to people taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip they’ve planned for ages. How do you find the right Instagram travel quote for you?

Instagram travel quotes are short by necessity, but they pack incredible meaning in a few words. Peruse this curated list of the most inspiring, shortest, and most Instagrammable travel quotes to find the one that instantly clicks. Then, let Adobe Express help you make Instagram posts or stories of all the photos you’re about to share, because there’s no better place for your favorite vacation photos than Instagram.

Henry David Thoreau

What better quote than this one to use in a collage or carousel of colorful photos from multiple destinations?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel is a lesson in humility for a lot of us. What does it feel like to be the foreigner when you travel?

Oscar Wilde

Share this in an Instagram story with photo evidence of one of the most outlandish things you’ve done while traveling. No regrets, right?

Ibn Battuta

There are so many stories to tell after a major trip. If you write cards or letters during or after the trip, watch how you turn into a storyteller with each incredible experience.

Jacques Cousteau

If you took one trip that turned you into a travel addict, and haven’t stopped traveling since, this Instagram travel quote is perfect for you.

The friendships you make while traveling have a unique energy to them. Can you tag some of your travel friends in an Instagram post with this quote?

Funny travel quotes that rouse a knowing laugh.

Travel is inspiring and some of the best social media content in your feed comes from the trips your friends and family take. You love browsing the photos and dreaming of the destinations, don’t you?

Once it’s your turn to travel, though, there are always some unglamorous hiccups. Funny quotes about travel tease out the tougher parts of a trip, like overspending a budget or traveling with people who aren’t the best travel buddies.

Travel has so much magic to it that even these funny travel quotes rouse smiles. Choose your favorites from this list and share them in cards to family or in social posts you share.

Quit vegetating and go travel somewhere.

Babs Hoffman

This cute travel quote is helpful to remember the next time you have flight delays.

Jack Kerouac

Use this quote on a poster and it can be a constant reminder to never let yourself idle in your comfort zone.

Audrey Hepburn

This short, cute travel quote is great for a banner at a bon voyage party. Even if the destination isn’t Paris, the message is clear: Taking a trip is always worthwhile.

Travel is like the insecticide to an infestation of lazy thinking. Travel more and see how it expands your mind in ways you never imagined.

Gustave Flaubert

This memorable travel quote works perfectly on a poster with a graphic or photo of the globe.

Family travel quotes—from touching to “touché.”

Traveling with family conjures a special kind of magic. There are few people in the world who can annoy us so much, and yet we still adore them. That makes traveling together a seesaw of going nuts and having the time of our lives.

Your role on a family trip changes over time, from the backseat of the car on family trips as a kid to the adult who treats Mom and Dad to a flight somewhere fantastic. There are elements of family travel that never change, though. There’s always a moment when you’re begrudgingly awake but together at the crack of dawn. There are evenings when no one realizes it’s time to call it a night. There are photo-ops galore, and always more memories made than you could count.

Family travel quotes bottle that magic into something you can use in a card or letter , post on Instagram , or to keep in your head—just like the memories you make.

Hodding Carter

If you have kids and take vacations as a family, thinking about what each trip does for a young person’s frame of mind is a huge part of planning.

Rick Steves

This travel quote can be as meaningful for a child on a poster as it can be in a collage of memories of major adventures taken as an adult.

Rachel Hartman

This family travel quote works for families with small kids and for those traveling together as adults. What a sweet sentiment to put in a letter or card , don’t you think?

Bill Bryson

Put this into context. What activities that are “normal” at home change for you when you experience them away from home? What small details, when altered, make something feel totally new?

Fred Connors

Not every trip has to be exotic or flashy for Instagram. Often, it’s more important just to be together and have fun.

Donna Hedges

Having family to travel with is also the best reason to never say never to a dream trip or destination.

Travel quotes for couples with a shared sense of adventure.

Would you take a trip with a new partner to get to know one another? Would you take a trip to shake things up after years of daily routines? Maybe you already travel with your partner, and these famous citations are the travel love quotes that define your chemistry.

Whatever your case, traveling as a couple creates shared experiences that are unforgettable.

Go catch the sun with these superb travel quotes for couples. Pick your favorites to use as social media banners , Instagram posts , and cards or letters to family and friends. You’ll want to document the next adventure every way you can.

Ernest Hemingway

Travel is wonderful, but it’s also stressful. Travel is insightful for couples as well as individually, because your partner will see you in every state.

Samuel Johnson

This thought-provoking travel quote is also true of your romantic relationship. Use travel to anchor the reality of your relationship—because it will expose how things really are.

If you’re in a long-term relationship and haven’t felt excited about life at home recently, travel as a couple can act as a defibrillator of excitement.

Make this a rule for a romantic relationship, and the benefits will compound year-over-year.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

When you meet that special someone and discover you both love travel, the future before you glows with exciting possibilities.

Anita Desai

Wherever you go together becomes part of your relationship, too. Reflect on that together after a trip as a couple.

Travel with a partner can be scary, but that can also mean it’s something to try.

Travel with friends quotes to caption photos, fill collages, and inspire more trips.

Road trips after graduation, backpacking to learn a language, and trips to find yourself alongside your best friend can become the stuff of legends.

It’s fun to jump on the bandwagon, too, when a friend is going somewhere and you want to tag along. Travel with friends is that easy—if you share a passion for adventure, taking a trip together gives you a sense of familiarity that contrasts in an unforgettable way with the new places you experience together.

Choose your favorites of these quotes about traveling with friends, and they can serve as the perfect captions for your Instagram stories along the way.

Shirley MacLaine

Travel with friends makes better friends of those you travel with, and offers the opportunity to make new friends in unlikely places, too.

Leonardo DiCaprio

One of the best parts about traveling with friends is the time together without other distractions.

Crestless Wave

Are you “that friend?” If you aren’t, you should become that friend’s co-pilot.

Turkish proverb

Another benefit to traveling with friends is having company during the pleasant and the tough parts of a trip. No airport layover feels quite as long with a good friend by your side.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, it’s hardly about the destination. It’s about the time spent together and the memories made.

The next time any friend of yours says “travel,” you should say, “let’s go.” Put this on a poster and keep it in sight as a reminder.

Marcel Proust

Experiencing and discovering places through your friends’ eyes opens yours to new perspectives, too.

Travel alone quotes for the bona fide adventurers.

Traveling alone is for true adventurers. Not only do those who travel alone often choose destinations off the beaten path, they also venture into new aspects of themselves on the way.

Travel alone quotes highlight the value of spending time solo and they celebrate the full control over every aspect of a trip when it’s yours. They send us off with affirming “safe travel” quotes, and they’re perfect for banners and flyers at a bon voyage party, too.

Choose your favorite travel quotes about solo journeys, then make them your own. They’ll quickly inspire your next adventure.

When you travel alone, you don’t have to wait for anyone. Use this travel quote on a poster to encourage you to take any adventure you dream up.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all who wander are lonely, either. Traveling alone is the favorite way to travel for some people.

David Mitchell

Consider journaling or writing letters to friends and family while you travel so you can capture things you learn about yourself along the way.

William Langewiesche

Some places and some trips we have to experience solo for them to form us the way they ought to.

Antoine de St. Exupery

Sometimes, that means traveling light on company, too.

Neale Donald Walsch

If traveling alone seems like a stretch for you, that’s more reason to do it.

Matthew Karsten

This is a great message to put on a flyer for any kind of travel offer, especially if it supports solo travelers.

Tips when using quotes about travel.

Where can you use travel quotes? The short answer is “anywhere.” For the travel quotes that are so good you just have to share them, think about:

• Cards — use travel quotes in cards to send quick messages packed with feeling.
• Letters — when you write letters to friends and family during a trip, travel quotes act as a view into the adventure you’re living.
• Posters — use travel quotes on posters for a constant source of inspiration.
• Banners — string your favorite travel quotes on banners to hang for a bon voyage party.
• Collages — one perfect travel quote in the center of a collage of vacation photos is always fun.
• Flyers — use travel quotes on flyers that promote different kinds of travel, upcoming trips, or travel resources.
• Instagram posts — for photos, reels, and carousels, a travel quote in an Instagram post can add context.
• Instagram stories — for the fleeting moments on a trip you just have to share, Instagram stories are always improved with a good travel quote.

Exercise: Find your travel style.

Take this quiz to discover what travel style you have. This will help choose the best travel quotes for your brand of adventure.

Ask yourself:

Total your points. Then see which is your type of travel:

• 4-7 points: Cultural Explorer
• 8-11 points: Leisure Traveler
• 12-15 points: Adventure Seeker
• 16-20 points: Sightseeing Enthusiast

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite travel quotes to work. If you want to use travel quotes in cards , letters , posters , banners , collages , flyers , Instagram posts , Instagram stories , or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.

15 Ways To Have The Most Memorable Paris Trip

Y ou probably won’t have to try too hard to have a memorable time in Paris, but these 15 Ways To Have The Most Memorable Paris Trip will definitely give you some ideas!

Having a memorable Paris trip is pretty much a given when you visit this romantic city - however, you probably don’t want to have the exact same trip you’ve heard about from everybody else. 

See Some Famous Graves

Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is where you’ll find the graves of many famous people. Located in the northeast corner of Paris, the Pere Lachaise Cemetery is the most visited cemetery in the world. Over 800,000 people are buried here, including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison.

There are many other famous residents, including Chopin, Moliere, Edith Piaf, and Rossini. It’s actually a beautiful place with some impressive headstones and tombs and well worth a visit.

Many people like to leave trinkets at Jim Morrison's grave, and there’s even a tree covered in multicolored chewing gum. You never know when you might find somebody quietly playing The Door’s songs and swaying sullenly to the music, either. 

Sleep In Luxury

If you're looking for some incredible accommodation options, I'd strongly suggest looking for a place to stay in some of the iconic holiday rentals in Paris.

Located throughout the capital, you'll easily find a place near main attractions with simple public transport options, helping you get round the city. Catering to a variety of budgets, you'll find a beautiful place to rest your head and continue exploring! 

Enjoy As Many Of The Culinary Delights As You Wish

What’s the point in visiting Paris if you’re not going to sample all of the culinary delights it has to offer? Aside from all of the cheese and fresh pastries, make sure you have some Crepes! One of the best things to do while in Paris is to eat.

If this sounds good to you, then booking a food tour could be a good way to go! You’ll visit some of the very best places in the city and enjoy some amazing foods. 

Plan For Plenty Of Galleries And Museums

There are so many galleries and museums to choose from in Paris, so make sure you plan to visit many of them. Of course, you shouldn’t try to cram too many into a weekend or you won’t be able to appreciate them fully! 

The Louvre is the world’s largest art museum. This building was once the home to French Kings, including Louis XIV. The Louvre was converted to a museum during the French Revolution in the 18th century.

You could spend days here and not see it all. The highlights include the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa. 

Musee d’Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. You’ll be able to enjoy the works of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet, Degas, and more here. 

Musee de l’Orangerie is a small museum with just a few oval rooms that feature Impressionist artwork. The highlights of this museum are the eight Water Lilies murals painted by Claude Monet, which span the whole panoramic space of a room.

You can also see art by Picasso, Sisley, Cezanne, Matisse, and more.

One of the 15 Ways To Have The Most Memorable Paris Trip is to SHOP!

Visit The Flea Markets For Trinkets And Souvenirs 

There are many incredible flea markets in Paris, and they are perfect for picking up trinkets and souvenirs that you can take home with you to remember your trip. You’ll also find many stalls set up along the Seine River, selling used books, magazines, and artwork.

This tradition of selling used books along the Seine started in the 16th century and this is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You could easily buy a few used books and other goods on your way to visit some of the museums and galleries listed above. 

Walk As Much As You Can - And Get Lost 

Paris is a city that should really be navigated on foot. You never know what you might miss if you don’t make the effort to explore on foot! You should even get lost on purpose, as there are so many beautiful things just waiting around the corner.

This way, you’ll get the opportunity to peek behind those doorways and discover the hidden gems you might have otherwise missed.

If you don’t want to navigate Paris alone, the Le Marais walking tour will show you the best of medieval Paris, and there are a few more walking tours you could take part in.

While many companies offer ‘free’ tours with the expectation that you’ll tip the guide at the end, you’ll find many self-guided tours if you type ‘free & self-guided walking tours in X’ into your phone browser.

Don’t Miss Some Of Paris’ Beautiful Bridges

There are a total of 37 bridges and footbridges along the Seine, connecting the Left Bank to the Right Bank. Some of these bridges are the most beautiful bridges in Paris and should not be missed, no matter the goal of your trip!

The best known bridges in Paris include the oldest one, Pont Neuf, which began construction in 1578. The Pont de l'Alma has a history and is a magnet for tourists, as it is the place where Princess Diana died tragically in the year 1997. 

Have A Picnic On The Seine 

The Seine is a wonderful place to stroll arm in arm with a lover or friend and find a spot to have a picnic. Take your own cheese, croissants, wine, and a fresh baguette, or if you prefer, you could order pizza from the Pink Flamingo. They’ll give you a balloon and deliver it straight to your spot when it’s ready! 

You could even try the Canal St Martin, which is more popular among the locals. 

Take Yourself For An Espresso

Take yourself on a coffee date with a book, just like the Parisians do! Enjoy your tiny but mighty espresso drink with your water on the side (to cleanse the palette), and take your time with your book.

You could even just people watch. This could also be a great idea for a date in Paris. Coffee dates are a great alternative to going out to expensive restaurants! 

Learn A Little French Before You Go 

The French people will really appreciate the fact that you tried to learn some French before arriving. Learn the basic phrases and it’ll make your trip so much more manageable at the very least. In some places, being polite in French might even get you a little bit knocked off the bill. 

Book Your Eiffel Tower Tickets In Advance

If you really do want to visit the Eiffel Tower, the smartest thing to do is book your tickets in advance. Otherwise, you’re looking at a 2-3 hour wait.

The Eiffel Tower is beautiful, but it is usually packed full of tourists, so don’t expect to have the place to yourself - and don’t expect to enjoy it if you don’t like crowds. If you want to give it a miss, head somewhere you’ll be able to see it lit up at night time instead, like the Trocadero or a cruise on the Seine. 

Walk Along The Champs Elysees

It’s touristy, but you have to do it! It’s one of the most recognizable streets in the world. Plus, you’ll be able to grab some macarons from Laduree while you’re there, which you will not regret. 

Buy A Book From Shakespeare and Company

Located on Paris’ Left Bank, Shakespeare and Company is a small but very famous bookstore. It’s very small and cramped inside, and this can be difficult when other tourists are around - there’s even somebody on the door to make sure there’s no funny business.

This bookstore was frequently visited by authors like Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. Now, it has lots of modern books and the classics you’d expect, and when you buy a book from there you get a special stamp!

It’s quite the experience and one all avid readers and bibliophiles should have. 

Take In The Views From A Rooftop Bar

There are so many restaurants that will give you the most amazing view of the city. You could enjoy the sunset and some French cuisine at the same time at a place like Le Perchoir or 43 Up on the Roof. 

Visit The Catacombs

The Catacombs will take you under the streets of Paris in a sort of labyrinth lined with human bones.

During the 18th century, cemeteries around Paris were cleared and the bones were moved to underground tunnels. Six million Parisians currently rest here. 

Don't Dress In Fancy Outfits 

One of the biggest mistakes that you can make in Paris is to dress in fancy outfits. You might want to show the French what you’re made of, but this is something you will no doubt end up regretting later on down the line.

You want to be comfortable while you’re exploring, and the last thing you want to think about is how much your feet are hurting. Take a sensible pair of shoes or trainers to navigate the Parisian streets. It’s also worth noting that in some clubs, the dress code is very casual.

You might be turned away if you’re too dressed up, so bear this in mind! Hopefully, you now have lots of ideas on how to have the most memorable Paris trip! 

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A New England Traveler’s Guide to Paris, France

What’s left to say about a city that has it all? Turns out, quite a lot in 2024.

From day trips to weekend getaways, our biweekly Traveler newsletter shows you the best of New England and beyond.

Setting out at sunset on the Seine. / Photo by Prasit Rodphan/Alamy Stock Photo

Few cities in the world instantly entice the senses and inspire the soul like Paris. Montmartre, the Latin Quarter, Saint-Germain, the Marais—this roll call of enchanting neighborhoods conjures images of quaint sidewalk cafés, verdant gardens, exquisite museums, intimate restaurants, and sun-splashed rooftops. With the Olympics beginning later this summer, the cosmopolitan capital has never looked more vibrant and prepared to welcome visitors. Wait, the French…welcoming? Indeed, even the Seine has undergone a massive cleaning and is set to host aquatic events, mon dieu! Whether you want to witness the Games or visit before the crowds start flowing in, there are a wealth of new attractions, restaurants, and hotels at the ready to experience the “City of Light” like never before.

The Louvre on a sunny day. / Photo by Bruce Beck/Alamy Stock Photo

One of the city’s newest—and most offbeat—attractions is Maison Gainsbourg , a Left Bank museum showcasing the provocative work of famed French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg (add on a visit to his historic house across the street for the full experience). To admire another lesser-known gem, head for Île Saint-Louis , the smaller of the two islands on the Seine. Here you’ll find narrow streets lined with 17th-century buildings featuring elaborate façades and quiet courtyards that offer a glimpse into the Paris of yesteryear. Stopping at Berthillon , which has been serving delicious ice cream since 1954, is a must. Prefer to actually get on the water? Try water skiing or wakeboarding on the river—yes, that’s really a thing—just outside of the city with the Ski Nautique Club .

If you still need to scratch some of the city’s most iconic sights off your bucket list, fear not. Several legendary spots are reopening their doors this year, including the Grand Palais : An architectural masterpiece originally built for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition will once again host the arts, as well as some Olympic competitions. Speaking of comebacks, Notre Dame Cathedral , which tragically burned in 2019, is set to reopen later this year after a painstaking $900 million-plus renovation.

No French sojourn would be complete without a stroll through the legendary Louvre , of course, but we recommend at least a few hours at the Musée d’ Orsay as it celebrates the 150th birthday of impressionism with an immersive new exhibit, “Tonight with the Impressionists.” Don a virtual reality headset to step back in time to 1874 and witness one of the first exhibitions of the movement featuring works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cézanne.

Strolling the Rue des Francs Bourgeois. / Photo by Lana Rastro/Alamy Stock Photo

On the Right Bank, the Marais is where you can find trendy boutiques lining the Rue des Francs Bourgeois . To seek out the best bargains, peruse the network of stalls, alleys, and showrooms at the Marché aux Puces , open on weekends and Mondays. It covers close to 20 acres and is one of the oldest flea markets in the world.

A Thai crèpe from Restaurant Thiou in Hôtel Norman. / Photo by Yann Deret

Tempting bistros are seemingly around every corner, but why not sample a bit of everything at the new gastronomic hall Communale Saint-Ouen ? This is no ordinary food court—Parisians gather here to listen to live music; sample street food, pastries, and cheeses; and sip fine wine and craft beers. For a more romantic atmosphere, slide into a booth at Le Christine , where chef Mehdi Bencheikh’s inspiring menu features creative French cuisine. Or take it to the next level at Dans Le Noir , which offers a truly unique experience: dining in almost complete darkness. When it’s time for a nightcap, the elegant Bar Hemingway remains a popular haunt, just as it was for F. Scott Fitzgerald.

A plush room at Hôtel Norman. / Photo © MrTripper

Just a short stroll from the Arc de Triomphe, the new Hôtel Norman is a boutique property conceived by architect Thomas Vidalenc. Ideal for couples or families, amenities at the intimate 37-room hotel include the Spa by Omnisens and Restaurant Thiou, which serves up sumptuous Thai dishes from the legendary Parisian chef Apiradee Thirakomen. La Fantaisie is another new boutique property, this one with a rooftop bar, café, and 63 tastefully appointed rooms and 10 suites—many offering breathtaking views of the bustling Montmartre and the city beyond.

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Nonstop flights from Boston to Paris are available on several carriers, including Air France, Delta, and JetBlue.

First published in the print edition of the May 2024 issue with the headline, “Paris, France.”

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A Parisian Adventure: Planning the Perfect Day Trip From Paris

Craving a taste of French countryside, medieval history, or artistic inspiration? A day trip from Paris unlocks a world of possibilities

Camilla Amadi • Apr 29, 2024

Beyond the Eiffel Tower lies a treasure trove of destinations waiting to be discovered. Craving a taste of French countryside, medieval history or artistic inspiration? A day trip from Paris unlocks a world of possibilities and you can return to the City of Lights with renewed energy and unforgettable memories.

5 Day Trips From Paris

If you have some extra time, there are many charming towns and villages waiting to be explored. We’ve compiled five enticing escapes, all perfect for a single-day adventure from Paris. Here are a few of our favorites:

Home to the iconic Palace of Versailles, Versailles is a must-see for any history buff. The palace was the seat of French royal power for over a century, and its opulent gardens and staterooms are a testament to the grandeur of the French monarchy.

Things to do: Visit the Palace of Versailles, explore the Hall of Mirrors, stroll through the meticulously manicured gardens, rent a rowboat on the Grand Canal, visit the Marie-Antoinette’s Estate, and attend the famous Musical Fountain Shows (seasonal).

Best time to travel: The best time to visit Versailles is during the spring (April to June) or fall (September to October) when the weather is mild, and the gardens are in full bloom, avoiding the peak summer crowds.

Where to stay : Experience luxury at its finest by staying at the Trianon Palace Versailles, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, offering elegant rooms and impeccable service just steps away from the Palace of Versailles.

This small village in Normandy is best known as the home of Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism. Monet’s home and gardens, which he immortalized in many of his paintings, are now a popular tourist destination.

Things to do: Explore Claude Monet’s House and Gardens, wander through the flower garden and water garden, visit the Museum of Impressionisms, and take a leisurely walk around the picturesque village.

Best time to travel: The best time to visit Giverny is from April to October, especially during late spring to early summer when the flowers are in full bloom, and the gardens are at their most colorful.

Where to stay : Enjoy a peaceful countryside retreat at the Le Jardin des Plumes , a charming boutique hotel located close to Monet’s gardens, featuring stylish rooms and a gourmet restaurant with garden views.

Mont Saint-Michel

Mont Saint-Michel is famous for its dramatic tidal variations, with the surrounding bay experiencing some of the highest tides in Europe. During high tide, the island is completely surrounded by water, creating a magical and isolated atmosphere.

Things to do: Explore the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, walk along the ramparts for panoramic views, visit the historic village, wander through narrow streets lined with shops and restaurants, and take a guided tour to learn about the island’s fascinating history.

Best time to travel: The best time to visit Mont Saint-Michel is during the shoulder seasons of spring (April to June) or fall (September to October) to avoid the large crowds of summer while still enjoying pleasant weather.

Where to stay : Immerse yourself in the magic of Mont Saint-Michel by staying at the La Mère Poulard , an iconic hotel and restaurant within the medieval walls, offering cozy rooms and panoramic views of the bay.

The city of Chartres is famous for its magnificent cathedral, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cathedral is considered one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in France, and its stained glass windows are some of the most beautiful in the world.

Things To Do: Visit the Maison Picassiette, a unique mosaic-covered house created by local artist Raymond Isidore, using broken glass and pottery. You may also walk the labyrinth located inside Chartres Cathedral, a symbolic journey representing the spiritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Best time to travel: The best time to visit Chartres is during the spring (April to June) or fall (September to October) when the weather is mild, and the city is less crowded. 

Where to stay : Indulge in the historic ambiance of Chartres by booking a stay at the Best Western Plus Hotel Le Grand Monarque , ideally situated near the cathedral and featuring comfortable rooms and a traditional French brasserie.

This medieval town is located in Seine-et-Marne, about an hour east of Paris. Provins is known for its well-preserved city walls, its underground passages, and its annual Rose Festival, which takes place in September.

Things to do: Explore the medieval ramparts and gates, visit the Underground Galleries of Provins, attend a medieval festival or reenactment, explore the Grange aux Dîmes, and visit the Saint-Quiriace Collegiate Church.

Best time to travel : The best time to visit Provins is during the summer months (June to August) when the weather is pleasant for exploring outdoor attractions and when various festivals and events take place, celebrating the town’s medieval heritage.

Where to stay : Step back in time at the Maison d’Hôtes Stella Cadente , a unique boutique hotel located within the medieval walls of Provins, offering themed rooms inspired by fairy tales and a whimsical atmosphere that transports guests to another era.

Plan Your Itinerary

Crafting a well-rounded itinerary ensures you make the most of your time away from Paris. Consider the following tips:

Early Start: Begin your day trip early to maximize exploration time and avoid crowds, especially at popular attractions like Versailles or Mont Saint-Michel.

Transportation : Research transportation options, whether by train, bus, or organized tours, and book tickets in advance for a seamless journey.

Highlight Attractions: Prioritize must-see attractions while allowing flexibility for unexpected discoveries and leisurely moments.

Local Cuisine: Sample regional delicacies at quaint cafes or charming bistros, savoring the flavors of each destination.

Pack Essentials: Prepare for a day of adventure by packing essentials tailored to your chosen destination.

Comfortable Attire : Dress appropriately for the weather and activities, whether exploring palace grounds, hiking nature trails, or wandering cobblestone streets.

Map and Guidebook : Arm yourself with maps and guidebooks to navigate unfamiliar terrain and gain insights into local history and culture.

Camera : Capture the beauty and memories of your day trip with a camera or smartphone to immortalize scenic vistas and cherished moments.

Snacks and Water: Stay energized and hydrated throughout the day with snacks and water, especially if venturing to remote areas.

Embrace the Experience

Venturing beyond Paris’s borders unveils a world of wonders waiting to be explored. Whether you seek history, art, nature, or gastronomy, a day trip from Paris promises an enriching experience. Whichever destination you choose, you’re sure to have a memorable day trip from Paris. As you embark on your day trip from Paris, embrace the sense of adventure, engage with the locals and soak in the sights and sounds that comes with exploration. Bon voyage!

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