- “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn in the movie “Sabrina” (1954).
- “France has more history than the entire world put together.” – Colin Jones in the book “Paris: Biography of a City” (2004).
- “The streets of Paris inspire more stories than the boulevards of any other city in the world.” – Victor Hugo in “Les Misérables” (1862).
- “France is a feast.” – Ernest Hemingway in “A Moveable Feast” (1964).
- “To err is human, to loaf is Parisian.” – Victor Hugo (date unknown).
- “France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks, it is a fine country.” – Mark Twain in “The Innocents Abroad” (1869).
- “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 (date unknown).
- “France has a thousand different tastes, and she has edifices of such enduring beauty that the eye never has enough of looking at them.” – Jules Verne in “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873).
- “France has long been a synonym for arts and crafts, earthly and spiritual treasures, and a rural art of living.” – J.M.G. Le Clézio in his Nobel Prize Lecture (2008).
- “France is the country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.” – Billy Wilder (date unknown).
WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about France
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