Quotes About London

Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

I need not tell you that Mr. Greville and Mr. Fenwick attended us to our first baiting; and had a genteel dinner ready provided for us: The gentlemen will tell you this, and all particulars. They both renewed their menaces of following me to London, if I stay'd above one month.

The neighborhood of Gramercy Park, where Edwin used to live, was built to look like London, which is to say that its considerable beauty is skin deep while its heart beats with the ugliness of monarchy. And at its very center, inside the gates keeping out the riffraff that is all New York, stands the statue of the sad and fancy Edwin Booth, dressed as Hamlet, his signature role.

Shall we go have a nice dinner in London? And,well, you can't, but I feel like getting a little foxed while we're at it.

John L. Stoddard's Lectures VOL. IX Scotland England London

When by me in the dusk my child sits down I am myself. Simon, if it's that loose, let me wiggle it out. You'll get a bigger one there, & bite. How they loft, how their sizes delight and grate. The proportioned, spiritless poems accumulate. And they publish them away in brutish London, for a hollow crown.

London gold dealers, in describing the day's action [during the 1968 gold crisis], used the un-British words "stampede," "catastrophe," and "nightmare.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

rapidamente cheguei à resolução de me lançar no vasto mundo, dirigindo-me a Londres para ir em busca de minha fortuna, uma frase que, parece, tem arruinado mais aventureiros de ambos os sexos saídos do campo do que levado a sua realização.

The origins of the Particular Baptists (Calvinists) date from the 1630s. In 1644 Particular Baptists of seven churches drafted the First London Confession (1644

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

In 2011, Boris Johnson, then London's mayor, saw the downside when the capital's fringes went on the rampage for several days, smashing up shops and burning cars, looting what they could not have. Five years later Britain's left-behinds vetoed London's economic interests in the Brexit referendum.

Edward R. Murrow

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

We've got a gallery here, in Chelsea. Plus London and Berlin. That's why I'm trying to get to Germany. For an opening.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.