A Waiter in Paris Quotes

“Vivi dove i pomodori sono buoni. You think about”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“The sommelier has very little time for New World wines. ‘It’s like literature,’ he says. ‘You’ll never read everything; just concentrate on appreciating the classics.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“If I was looking in some way to get truly down and out, and experience the real Paris, then surely being completely broke, living in a peripheral hotel slash whore house with a croupier slash sect member, and working as a runner in a restaurant is pretty good.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“Any man can wear expensive shoes. The hard part’s wearing them like you’re meant to be wearing them.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“When the doors are open the carriages are filled again with the unmistakable smell of the Paris Métro: a heady, sulphuric, rotten egg, old shoes, brake dust and urine-tinged infusion.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“People say Paris smells of piss, but in the morning it smells of croissants.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

“there are no pockets in shrouds.”
― Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City