10 Dreamy Quotes That Will Make You Want To Visit Paris

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

Thomas Jefferson. Image source: Wikipedia

“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

John Berger, an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet

"In Paris, our lives are one masked ball." –  Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux (Author of The Phantom of the Opera)

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown." – Gertrude Stein

Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. Image source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me." – Carol (Margo Martindale) in the final vignette of Paris Je T’Aime

"You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden." –  Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg. Image source: Wikipedia

"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

Scott Fitzgerald. Photo by Carl van Vechten. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." –  Mark Twain

"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

Ernest Hemingway

“We'll always have Paris.” – Howard Koch from the film Casablanca

Casablanca