100+ Dreamy Paris Quotes (for Perfect Instagram Captions)

Looking for some Paris quotes? Here are over 100 quotes, sayings, and more that are perfect for your Paris Instagram captions, or to inspire your travels!

There’s no city quite like Paris. Plenty has been said and written about the City of Lights over the years – and there’s no shortage of inspiring Paris quotes.

Paris has become one of my all-time favorite city over the years – there’s just something just magical about it, and it never fails to stir up a sense of wonder within me. It has inspired countless works of literature, art, poetry, music, film, and much more.

There is much to love about Paris, whether it’s its bucket list worthy experiences, incredible food and pastries, or world-class museums and famous sights. One also cannot help but snap tons of Instagram-worthy photos that capture the beauty of the city, and these quotes make perfect Paris captions.

I always love coming across Paris quotes and reminiscing about my time in the city, whether it’s an iconic saying, an inspiring quote, or something humorous.

Here are 100 of the best quotes about Paris that will have you dreaming about your next trip to Paris!

100+ Dreamy Paris Quotes

Famous Quotes About Paris From Books, Movies, and TV

Paris has been the inspiration for countless books, movies, and TV shows over the years. Some of the most famous quotes about Paris have been from iconic works of literature, film, and TV. Here are some of the best Paris captions inspired by books, movies, and TV!

“We’ll always have Paris.” – Humphry Bogart, Casablanca

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” – Marion Cotillard, Midnight in Paris

“If you’re going to be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris.” – Gossip Girl

“Paris exists to remind you that all your dreams are real.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina

“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, A Moveable Feast

“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there’s nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.” – Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris

“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.” – Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“Paris seems like a big city, but it’s really just a small town.” – Camille, Emily in Paris

“If “Sex and the City” taught us anything, it’s that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.” – Elizabeth Bard

“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!”- Charles Dickens

“ I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night.” –Midnight in Paris

Other Famous Paris Quotes

Many famous writers, politicians, and other famous public figures have had plenty to say about Paris. Here are some of the best quotes about Paris from famous people over the years:

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

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” – Oscar Wilde

“He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.” – Victor Hugo

“To know Paris is to know a great deal.” – Henry Miller

“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

“Secrets travel fast in Paris.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” – G. K. Chesterson

“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – King Francis I

“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.” – Klemens von Metternich

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” – Oscar Hammerstein II

“The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” – T.S. Eliot

“In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.” – Mark Twain

“Cities have gender: London is a man, Paris is a woman, and New York City a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” – Gertrude Stein

“It’s Paris. You don’t come here for the weather.” – Adrian Leeds

“Breathe Paris in. It nourishes the soul.” – Victor Hugo

“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac

“Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.” – Willa Cather

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.” – Victor Hugo

Inspiring Quotes About Paris

There is just something about Paris that stirs and inspires something within people. There are plenty of inspiring quotes about the City of Lights, which also make perfect Paris cations!

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature, and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” – James Thurber

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D’Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”  – Margaret Anderson

“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets – as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower.

Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her–and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.”- Anne Rice

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.” – Kristin Hannah

“To be a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.” -Sacha Guitry

“I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.” –  Amy Thomas

“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” – Michael Simkins

“I know so much is going to happen here, but I just don’t know how. It feels like Paris is full of so many adventures just waiting to be had.” – Rachel Kapelke-Dale

“It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist’s studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.” – Julian Barnes

“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

“I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.” – Alan Furst

“I think Paris smells, and not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all the senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and yes, for mysteries.”- M.J. Rose

“Paris is the City of Light, of love, of beauty, of romance and of hope over fear, gratitude over cynicism and light over darkness. The light must, has before and will always prevail…. I stand with the City of Light now and forever.” – Doni Belau, Girls’ Guide to Paris.

“Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.” – Lee Radziwill

“Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you.” – Pierre Assouline

“Paris… is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere.” – Julien Green

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.” – Wes Anderson

“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.” – Ernest Hemingway

“One of the first drawings I did in Paris – I wasn’t thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing – I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.” – Ellsworth Kelly

Quotes About Love for Paris Captions

Paris is nicknamed the City of Love, for good reason. There’s just something so romantic about the city. If you are looking for the best romantic Paris quotes, keep on reading below!

“It’s true, you never forget your first love, and for me, that will always be Paris.” – Caitriona Balfe

“You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,
going in circles, mounting each other.
Paris is the city of love,
even for the birds.”
– Samantha Schutz

“Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger

“Paris holds the key to your heart.” – Anastasia

“To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won’t say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant – that, or somewhere totally secluded… in Paris.” – Betty Who

Quotes About Life in Paris

Many famous people have called Paris home over the years, and have had plenty to say about their experience. Here are some of the best quotes about life in Paris:

“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.” – Ernest Hemingway

“It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.” – Julia Child, My Life in France

“There is but one Paris, and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even – the French air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Everyone dreams of living in Paris.” – Natalie Portman

“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” – Roman Payne, Crepuscule

Paris Quotes About Self-Discovery

There’s just something about Paris that stirs something within and helps people find their true selves. Here are some of the best quotes about Paris and self-discovery (which also make great Paris Instagram captions!):

“Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.” – Joan Juliet Buck

“Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.” – Marie Curie

“Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.” – Whit Stillman

“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.” – Paris Je T’Aime

Eiffel Tower Quotes for Paris Captions

There are plenty of Paris quotes about the city’s most famous landmark. Here are some of the best ones:

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” – Natalie Lloyd

“The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build.”- Hector Jesus Arencibia

“I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be in my next life three hours earlier.” – Woody Allen

“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” – Gustave Eiffel

“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” – Bill Bryson

Paris Quotes About Food

One of the best things about Paris is the food! The city is one of the premier culinary destinations in the world. Here are some of the best Paris quotes about food:

“The shopping, the food, the views! Paris is a city that entrances us all—and I’m no exception.” – Michael Kors

“In Paris in the 1950s, I had the supreme good fortune to study with a remarkably able group of chefs. From them I learned why good French good is an art, and why it makes such sublime eating: nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. Good results require that one take time and care. If one doesn’t use the freshest ingredients or read the whole recipe before starting, and if one rushes through the cooking, the result will be an inferior taste and texture–a gummy beef Wellington, say. But a careful approach will result in a magnificent burst of flavor, a thoroughly satisfying meal, perhaps even a life-changing experience.

Such was the case with the sole meunière I ate at La Couronne on my first day in France, in November 1948. It was an epiphany.

In all the years since the succulent meal, I have yet to lose the feelings of wonder and excitement that it inspired in me. I can still almost taste it. And thinking back on it now reminds me that the pleasures of table, and of life, are infinite–toujours bon appétit!” – Julia Child, My Life in France

“It’s Paris, everyone’s serious about dinner.” – Mindy, Emily in Paris

Quotes About Paris and the Seasons

One of the best things about Paris is how it changes through the seasons – yet it is beautiful no matter what the season. Here are some of the best quotes about Paris in the spring and summer:

“When spring comes to Paris, the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.“ – Henry Miller

“A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.” – Kate Simon

“I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.” – Cole Porter

Miscellaneous Quotes for Paris Instagram Captions

Still need a quote for your Paris Instagram caption? Here are even more quotes about Paris:

“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” – Jules Renard

“There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you’re in Paris and you already miss it.” – Rosecrans Baldwin

“In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.” –Christian Louboutin

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” – Jean Cocteau

“Let’s go to Paris. Take me there and never look back.” – Lana Del Rey

“Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.” –Courtney Maum

“I’m not a complicated girl; she laughed, I just want to run away with you, rob a bank, fall in love and eat ice creams in Paris.” – Michael Faudet

“Paris was all so… Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all – the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!” – David Nicholls

Famous Sayings for Perfect Paris Captions

There are plenty of famous sayings about Paris, which all make perfect Paris captions!

“Paris, je t’aime.”

“Pardon my French”

“You had me at Bonjour”

“I wish I was in Paris.”

“A bad day in Paris is better than a good day anywhere else.”

“Take me to Paris.”

“Paris is for lovers.”

“Okay, but first Paris.”

Punny Paris Instagram Captions

If you are looking for a good pun for your Paris caption, then look now further than the below:

“Paris, I Louvre you”

“Eiffel hard for this city.”

“Oui just love Paris!”

“Holy crêpe, Paris is amazing”

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Notre Dame”

“In-Seine-ly beautiful”

“Are you French? Because Eiffel for you.”

“You must be from Paris because you’re driving me in-Seine”

“I couldn’t come to Paris without my French coat”

“Paris, I hope our paths croissant again”

What are some of your favorite Paris quotes?

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