A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Ambrose Bierce

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American Been Breakfast Paris

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

Woody Allen

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

Jessica Simpson

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

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

Ernst Lubitsch

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

Rosecrans Baldwin

I happen to think the Paris accord, the Paris treaty, or the Paris Agreement, if you will, should have been treated as a treaty, should have gone through Senate confirmation.

Scott Pruitt

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

Ernst Lubitsch

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

"Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."

John Green

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

David Sedaris

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

Augustus De Morgan

I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

Ja Rule

Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York, you can never be lost. In Paris, even when I walk to my gallery or whatever, I always take another route, because Paris is not built that way.