“Every man's Paris is his own, with its own characteristics, and is in some respects at least unlike the Paris of any one else.”

“The Parisian is of all men the most sophisticated. Paris is a city of realists, unaffected by sentimentality; a city of industry and thrift; a city of irony, but rarely of laughter, of wit but never or humour, of superficial intolerance and yet of people who regard the rest of the world with more or less amiable contempt.”

“Of all the women in the world the Parisian woman is the best to look at. When one knows her one discovers that she is not quite so different from other women as one would suppose from the way that she does her hair.”

“I have met ghosts who attract me, and, following my habit in the material world, I have avoided the ghosts that bore me.”

“All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.”

“Confess your own sins, not someone else's”

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”