Weekend Words: Paris
"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
On Thursday, in the single most destructive act of his catastrophic presidency, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the global climate accord, calling himself the representative of Pittsburgh and not Paris. To which the mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, replied in a tweet: “I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future.”
Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
—John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
—C. Wright Mills
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
—Paul Cezanne
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
—Fred A. Allen
We’ll always have Paris.
—Rick to Ilse, in Casablanca, screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. 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.
—G. K. Chesterton
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
And trade is art, and art’s philosophy,
In Paris.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Aurora Leigh”
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
—Henry David Thoreau
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
—Mark Twain
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
—Willa Cather
Secrets travel fast in Paris.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
—Charles Montesquieu
