Quotes About Lisbon

I spent the war in Lisbon, you know," Deane said, putting the gun down. "Lovely place, Lisbon.

He had made a very profitable killing on a certain trip which he took to Madeira, but coming back overland from Lisbon a sylph-like blonde detained him too long in Paris, and he woke up one morning to find that he was a full twenty pounds short of his fare to New York. He set out for London with this pressing need of capital absorbing his mind, and

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.

the melancholic remainder of our lives (a place the Lisbon girls, wisely, it began to seem, never cared to see)

Celtic won the European Cup, beating Internazionale in Lisbon with a team made up of players who hailed from within twelve miles of Celtic Park. It was a Glasgow team of Glasgow men.

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

Great Lisbon Earthquake that, in the space of one day in 1755, took the breath out of a nation's imperial aspirations and redirected European philosophical and social thought.

Lisbon is a good city to get lost in. Mornings in cafes scribbling in yet another notebook, each blank page offering escape, the pen serving, fluid and constant. I sleep well, dream little, simply exists within an uninterrupted interlude.