Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

It's just fun to be in Paris.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

I don't like Paris so much.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Paris is a beautiful city.

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.