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We'll always have Paris.
(Howard Koch (1901-1995), U.S. screenwriter, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Michael Crutiz. Rick (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca, as he says good-bye to Ilsa, his former lover (1943).)
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
(Prince Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian statesman. Comment, 1830. attributed, in A Dictionary of Historical Quotations, eds. Alan and Veronica Palmer (1985).)
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Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.
(Tom Wolfe (b. 1931), U.S. journalist, author. From Bauhaus to Our House, introduction (1981).)
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If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.
(Horace Walpole (1717-1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 60, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).
Originally written in 1787; in Greek mythology, the Judgment of Paris is the story of Paris's awarding the prize of beauty to the Goddess Aphrodite (over the Goddesses Hera and Pallas Athena) in return for the bribe of the fairest woman in the world, Helen.)
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
(Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Mascarille, in Les Précieuses Ridicules, sc. 9 (1659).)
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
(Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel à L'Ordre (1926).)
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The roof of England fell
Great Paris tolled her bell
And China staunched her milk and wept for bread
(Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Scyros (l. 16-18). . .
New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.)
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And trade is art, and art's philosophy,
In Paris.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), British poet. Aurora Leigh, bk. 6, l. 96 (1857).)
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Paris: a city of pleasures and amusements where four-fifths of the people die of grief.
(Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794), French writer, wit. Maxims and Considerations, vol. 2, no. 496 (1796, trans. 1926).)
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
(Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. In The Works of Honoré de Balzac, vol. IV, trans. by George Saintsbury (1971). Narrator, in Pierrette, originally named Pierrette Lorrain, in Le Siècle (1840); included in the Comédie humaine as a Scène de la Vie de Province (1843).)
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