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Quotes About London

I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
~ Tamera Mowry
I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.
~ Jackie Collins
I love London, I love the British people.
~ Yohan Blake
I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
~ Kate Moss
I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.
~ Robert Vaughn
I will stay at Arsenal forever. There will be no transfer for me. I love London. I've got a house there, I'm happy there and I don't see any reason to ever leave the club.
~ Thomas Vermaelen
For a whole month, the whole demi-monde was forgotten for one English virgin. Never, even in Paris, had a woman triumphed so.
~ Max Beerbohm
Suppose he went to the Bursar, obtained an exeat, fled straight to London!
~ Max Beerbohm
Everything's bigger better, or worse in London. That's just the way of it.
~ Bernard Cornwell
In the middle of the nineteenth century a railway line was made from London's Fenchurch Street to Southend and, when excavating at what is now South Benfleet (Beamfleot), the navvies discovered the charred remnants of burned ships among which were scattered human skeletons. Those remains were over nine hundred years old, and they were what was left of Haesten's army and fleet. I
~ Bernard Cornwell
London is a weary place, where it is quite impossible to think or feel anything worthy of a human being - I feel horribly lost here. Only the river and the gulls are my friends; they are not making money or acquiring power.
~ Bertrand Russell
All names of places--London, England, Europe, the Earth, the Solar System--similarly involve, when used, descriptions which start from some one or more particulars with which we are acquainted. I suspect that even the Universe, as considered by metaphysics, involves such a connexion with particulars. In logic, on the contrary, where we are concerned not merely with what does exist, but with whatever might or could exist or be, no reference to actual particulars is involved.
~ Bertrand Russell
A Claridge's in London or a pub, a Cirro's in Paris or a bistro — alehouse, coffee-house, bodega, caravansary — by any name each is a sanctuary, a temple for talk, and for the observance of the warming rites of comradeship.
~ Beryl Markham
Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.
~ James Watkins
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
~ Ben Schott
I really resent how expensive everything is in London.
~ Rachael Stirling
Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to make me do that.
~ Dizzee Rascal
If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where you're almost out of sight of London, you've got to pay more and more to get into central London. How does that work?
~ Benjamin Clementine
I met Ne-Yo in London. I sang for him and he said, 'I want to sign you.' It was amazing - it meant my name was buzzing around the industry and I got to meet lots of different labels.
~ Conor Maynard
I loved my time at Fulham. A lot of the reason why I signed for Fulham was because of Chris Coleman. I loved what he had to say, and coming back to London.
~ Jimmy Bullard
London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.
~ Helmut Sohmen
In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
~ Zac Goldsmith
The Cavaliere is no democrat. But his chilly heart is not insensitive to a certain idea of justice. Not for him the behavior of his grandfather, of whom it is told that he brained a serving boy while drunk in a tavern near London, and retired without realizing what he had done. The distraught taverner followed him to his room and said, "My lord, do you know that you killed that boy?" Stammered the Cavaliere's ancestor: "Put him on the bill." *
~ Susan Sontag
years later, a young man left the building of Laraby's Stadium in London.
~ Josephine Cox