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

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

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. -James Baldwin

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. -Honoré de Balzac

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. -Josephine Baker

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

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

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. -Victor Hugo

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 Willem van Gogh

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

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

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