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Quotations
 | Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 5 likes |
 | Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 4 likes |
 | In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
| Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 3 likes |
 | I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress (on Las Vegas) 3 likes |
 | No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 3 likes |
 | New York: A third-rate Babylon. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
 | If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 3 likes |
 | I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world. — Texas Guinan, 1884-1933, American actress 3 likes |
 | A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Florence is a city for newlyweds; Venice, for lovers; Turin, for old spouses who have nothing more to say to each other. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 2 likes |
 | When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. — Nelson Algren, 1909-1981, American writer 2 likes |
 | The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand. |
| Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. |
 | America is my country, and Paris is my home town. |
| And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made. |
 | It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities, it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash. |
 | There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. |
 | If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish. |
 | Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough. |
 | The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. |
 | Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. |
| The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris. |
 | Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. |
 | I don't know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. |
 | The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. |
| Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. |
 | There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. |
| You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. |
| Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. |
Quotes in Verse
 | You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You will walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, will turn gray in these same houses. You will always end up in this city. — Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ The city 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
| Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. |
 | Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. |
Non-English Quotes
 | Ich bin ein Berliner! I am a Berliner! — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] (from a June 26, 1963 speech in West Berlin) 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Man is by nature a city animal. Ο άνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικόν ζώον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher (or political animal) 8 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. — from the film Ninotchka (1939) 8 likes |
