James Weldon Johnson Paris Quotations

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.