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Quotes About London

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time. He loathed the poverty that was all around and hated the smug indifference towards it from so many of the people he had to work with. He thought of Mrs Litvinov, a woman without two brass tacks to rub together, but more capacity for kindness than anyone very much in Whitehall.  Mrs Litvinov and her kind ought to run the country, he thought. And what a better country it might be.
~ John Bainbridge
And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.
~ John Betjeman
He lifted his pint and took a long gulp and I watched his face grimace a little as he tried to swallow. His eyes closed briefly as he fought the urge to spit it back up. 'Christ, that tastes good,' he said with all the credibility of a Parisian complimenting a meal in Central London. 'I needed that.
~ John Boyne
and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.
~ John Buchan
He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;
~ John Bunyan
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
~ Renzo Piano
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.
~ Anna Madeley
Living in London and having a lavish lifestyle, it's not that important to me.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.
~ Sophie Winkleman
Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.
~ Pete Doherty
I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
~ Wolfgang Puck
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
~ Charles Keating
I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
~ Daniel Sharman
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
~ Walter Salles
I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.
~ Tom Parker Bowles
In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
~ Harvey Fierstein
I feel very at home in London for some reason.
~ Mischa Barton
I'd never have written the big books in London.
~ Jilly Cooper
I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
~ Oxana Chusovitina
Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
~ Rebecca Loos
I like where I live here, in London.
~ Annie Lennox