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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

» Aristotle (384-322) Greek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great]

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

» Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

» D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

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 movable feast.

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

All great art is born of the metropolis.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

» Fred A. Allen (1894-1956) American comedian

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

» Fred A. Allen (1894-1956) American comedian

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

» George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin de

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

» Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author ['Brave New World']

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

» Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

» Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) American architect

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

» Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Polish Musician

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

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