New York Quotes

Never let the poor and destitute emigrant stop at New York – it will be his ruin.

If Paris is the setting for a romance, New York is the perfect city in which to get over one, to get over anything. Here the lost “douceur de vivre” is forgotten and the intoxication of living takes its place.

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York.

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.

I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

New York City isn’t a melting pot, it’s a boiling pot.

Now he emerged from the hotel and walked up Eighth Avenue. Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job. Some city. Chaos everywhere. Kant was right: The mind imposes order. It also tells you how much to tip. What a wonderful thing, to […]

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.