Paris

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 moveable feast.

(Ernest Hemingway)

You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? They got the metric system, they wouldn't know what the fuck a quarter pounder is. They call it a 'royale with cheese'.

(Vincent Vega-Pulp Fiction-Quentin Tarentino)

Scotland

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe I would choose to end my days in Scotland.

(Benjamin Franklin)



I would hate to die with a heart attack and have a good liver, kidneys and brains. When I die, I want everything to be knackered.

(Hamish Imlach) 

Scotland

Kilt,n,-a costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

(Ambrose Bierce)

Oh, but let me tell you that I love you

That I think about you all the time

Caledonia you're calling me

And now I'm going home

If I should become a stranger

You know that it would make me more than sad

Caledonia's been everything

I have ever had

(Caledonia Amy Macdonald)

Scotland

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

(Norman Wisdom)

For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forbears, good or bad; and burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

(Robert Louis Stephenson) 

Scotland

Join a highland regiment,meboy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoe.

(John Masters)

For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any condition submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to loose but with his life.

(The decleration of Arbroath. 1320)



Venice

I have never been in my life so struck by any place as by Venice. It is the wonder of the world. Dreamy, beautiful, inconsistent, impossible, wicked, shadowy, d-able old place! I entered by night and the bright morning that followed is part of me for the rest of my existence.

(Charles Dickens)

Though there are some disagreable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreable as the visitors.

(Henry James)

Venice

Venice has never been painted as she should, never....That foul son of a deal board, Canaletti-to have lived in the middle of it all and left us nothing.

(John Ruskin)

He used to say Venice was an impossible to place to sit down and sketch,'there was something still better around the corner.

(Miss Edith Bronson on Whistler)

Venice

Venice will linger in your mind and wherever you go in life you will feel somewhere over your shoulder, a pink, castellated, shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinnacles of the serenissima.

(James Morris)



'If you read a lot, nothing is great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better'.

(Fran Lebowitz)