What’s the best way to show off your San Francisco lifestyle? With a photo of you and your friends, coffee in hand, and smiling as you gaze out at the city of course!
But wait – before you publish, you’re going to need some clever ideas of San Francisco quotes for Instagram to caption your photo.
I’ve combed the internet for some fantastic quotes that will make perfect San Francisco captions for Instagram photos – or TikTok, Facebook, or just to have great quotes that show off the amazingness of this city.
Make sure to check out some San Francisco fun facts if you’d rather caption your photo with some interesting info! Also check out more California Quotes and Los Angeles Quotes for Instagram.
Instagram Captions and Quotes About San Francisco’s Glory and Beauty
These captions are especially perfect for photos of you and your loved one. Check out some romantic things to do in San Francisco for more inspo!
“San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.” — Frank Lloyd Wright.
“San Francisco is a complex town that lets you be yourself, that accepts you even if your family doesn’t.” — Jack Boulaware.
“If free speech and individuality are American characteristics, there is no place more American than San Francisco.” — Desi Del Valle.
“San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.” — Jack Kenny.
“San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.” — author John Steinbeck
“San Francisco itself is art… every block is a short story, every hill a novel, every home a poem.” — William Saroyan, novelist and playwright who lived in and loved San Francsico.
“San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.” — Cecil Beaton
“Every morning in San Francisco was a bit like waking up on the edge of the earth: beautiful and damp and wild, full of the strange music people make, open-armed, into the wind.” — Elizabeth Percer, author
“San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it’s my kind of politics. It’s like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.” — Elayne Boosler
“The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.” — Billy Graham
“One day if I go to heaven… I’ll look around and say ‘It ain’t bad. But it ain’t San Francisco.’” — Herb Caen
“It is a rich, lusty city, rippling with people, with movement, with girls in summer dresses, with flowers, with color; one of the great and wonderful cities of the world— the great seaport of the Pacific now, one of the great naval bases. Through it have poured a million men… And the sea is always just on the other side of those hills.” — James Marlow
“San Francisco, city of dreaming spires.” — Eddie Izzard, comic
“The light of San Francisco
is a sea light
an island light
And the light of fog
blanketing the hills
drifting in at night
through the Golden Gate
to lie on the city at dawn…”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
“San Francisco put on a show for me. I saw her across the bay, from the great road that bypasses Sausalito and enters the Golden Gate Bridge. The afternoon sun painted her white and gold—rising on her hills like a noble city in a happy dream.” ― John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was born in California and loved San Francisco- here are some other places that inspired Steinbeck too.
“You wouldn’t think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes.” — Dylan Thomas.
“San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.” — Julie Christie.
San Francisco Quotes for Instagram About Life
“San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home.” — Benjamin F. Taylor.
“It’s simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn’t be anywhere else.” — Julia Child.
“San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live.” — Rebecca Solnit.
“Anyone is fortunate to live here. If I were your president, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco.” — Mikhail Gorbachev.
“I love San Francisco. It’s by the sea, there’s a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.” — Brian Eno.
“I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.” — Mark Twain.
“San Francisco has only one drawback: ’tis hard to leave.” — Rudyard Kipling
“If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.” — William Saroyan
San Francisco Captions for Instagram – Short + Funny One Liners
- I left my heart in San Francisco (along with all my money).
- If you’re lucky enough to live in San Francisco, you’re lucky enough.
- It’s been a while, San Francisco – I’ve really mist you
- It’s hard to fog-get your first time in San Francisco
- I’ll never forget my first time in San Francisco, it was a little hazy
- San Francisco is so great, I moved here twice!
- People from San Francisco are called ‘San Franciscans’. If you’re not from there, you’re just “a person who lives in California”
- I’m not saying I was drunk in San Francisco but I remember standing on the street corner wondering what to do next
- San Francisco is like New York with its own personality and LA without all the people (or traffic)
More About San Fransicso:
- Best Adventures in San Francisco
- California Road Trip – the Perfect Itinerary
- Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip
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