Love Quotes About Paris

Ah, Paris. The city has infatuated the romantic and the romantic at heart for years, topping people’s couples bucket list. Throughout history, Paris has drawn dreamers, writers, philosophers, and artists to its neighborhoods in this fascinating city of light!

Honestly, any amount of time in Paris is a gift. It doesn’t matter if you have a weekend in Paris or a month in Paris, it will be fabulous!

The picturesque city oozes charm, culture, romance, history, and art. That is probably what makes Paris one of the most visited cities in the world year after year. So, it is no wonder that there are numerous inspiring quotes about Paris!

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I love finding travel quotes. I feel like they help to inspire wanderlust as much as songs about travel. Quotes just help you to see someone else’s perspective of a place, and personally, I love that!

I started dreaming of visiting Paris when I was a little girl and discovered that my great-grandfather was 100% Parisian. This discovery lead me to a love affair with a city I had never visited but dreamed of constantly.

Marty and I included Paris on our first trip to Europe, our honeymoon, and I could instantly see how people so easily fell in love with the city. Surrounded by beautiful people, great food, and incredible history and culture, Paris easily gets into not only your blood but also your soul.

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I think that is why this list of Paris quotes speaks to me so much. I feel as though I can relate to so many of them just based upon my brief encounter with Paris. I hope they speak to you also!

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There are so many quotes about Paris that we could really go on and on for days. Here are some of our favorites:

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“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

“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

“There is but one Paris, and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even- the French air cleans the brain and does good- a world of good.” -Vincent Van Gogh

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“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

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

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

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“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

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

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

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“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

“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.”

“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

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

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

“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 The Flaneur.

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“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

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

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

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That was the moment I fell in love with Paris and the moment that I felt that Paris had fallen in love with me.

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

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

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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

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part ― Alexandra Potter

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

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

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth … I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do! —Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee — Regis Philbin

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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

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

If I weren’t acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long ― Emma Bell

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Paris is such a unique and gorgeous city. Once you visit, it will forever be etched into your heart. I hope that these Paris quotes have inspired you to visit Paris if you haven’t. Please comment below and tell us your favorite Paris quote or share your favorite memory from Paris. Happy Travels, friends!

Michelle Snell is a travel writer, history buff, wine lover, and enthusiast of different cultures. Michelle enjoys bringing places to life through creative content creation and her informative writing style on her blogs, That Texas Couple and Totally Texas Travel and accompanying social media accounts. She is happiest sipping wine in Italy or chilling on a beach with her husband, Marty.

Paris is easily one of my favorite cities so I know how inspired people can get. Definitely on the list for next time abroad!France’s capital city has a reputation for sparking inspiration, romance and style. Several writers, artists and fashion folks alike have either traveled to Paris to inevitably become enamored with it, or are from the city and shared their unique Parisian way for the whole world to see. Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Coco Chanel ... just to name a few.

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