PARIS

Related Subjects: Cities, France

1. Is not Paris a vast meadow incessantly stirred by a storm of whirling diverse interests, its crop of men mowed down by death, at an earlier age than elsewhere.—BALZAC, The Girl With the Golden Eyes
   

2. It [Paris] is a city where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.—BALZAC
   

3. Fair, fantastic Paris.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

4. Paris is terribly derisive of all absurd pretensions but its own.—EMERSON
   

5. Paris is nothing but an immense hospitality.—VICTOR HUGO
   

6. Secrets travel fast in Paris.—NAPOLEON
   

7. As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.—NIETZSCHE, Ecce Homo
   

8. You who have ever been to Paris, know;
   And you who have not been to Paris—go!—RUSKIN, A Tour Through France
   

9. They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris.—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance