An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche – City, Paris
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.
Nicolas Chamfort – Paris
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain.
G.K. Chesterton – Paris
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
