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 (1899–1961), U.S. writer. A Moveable Feast (1964) Paris is worth a Mass. Attributed to: Henri IV (1553–1610), French monarch. Said on entering Paris, having secured its submission to his authority by becoming a Roman Catholic. (March 1594). Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously. James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), U.S. poet, lawyer, and diplomat.