Paris Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Paris


Good Americans when they die go to Paris. Attributed to Thos. Appleton by O. W. Holmes—Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI.	1
When you’ve walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to Versailles, although to go so far is A thing not quite consistent with your ease, And—but the mass of objects quite a bar is To my describing what the traveller sees. You who have ever been to Paris, know; And you who have not been to Paris—go! Ruskin—A Tour Through France. St. 12.	2
Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; ’Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is, But no good girl’s lip out of Paris. Swinburne—Translation from Villon. Ballad of the Women of Paris.	3