#paris

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#fools #god #love #paris #love

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?" Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL ↗

— Jacqueline LaTourrette

#italy #paris #pompeii #rome #suspense

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#tragedy

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins." And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a word, lazy. Here in Tokyo they're not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the Peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and I don't mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like "We, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god. ↗

— David Sedaris

#cashiers #europe #euros #hospitality #japan

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. ↗

— Tomislav Šola

#heritology #museology #museum #professionalism #šola

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#love

It was as if we'd pressed ourselves together until his bones passed through mine and we were the same person, ever so briefly. ↗

— Paula McLain

#the-paris-wife #love

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#pride #inspirational

Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#can-t-make-everyone-happy #crème-brûlée #crèmes-brûlées #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#entire #french #make #movies #paris