Top London Quotes

London is a roost for every bird.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

London Definition

(n.) The capital city of England.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

What a shocking bad hat!' was the phrase that was next in vogue. No sooner had it become universal, than thousands of idle but sharp eyes were on the watch for the passenger whose hat shewed any signs...

London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was...

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. Oy! yelled a punk rocker, with studs in his cranium. There's a fackin' queue!Never apologize, advises Lloyd Geor...

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

La semaine dernière, nous avons pris une décision. Nous allions sortir pour déblayer les briques. Des femmes de notre quartier y travaillaient quotidiennement. Les Trümmerfrauen. Elles nettoyaient les...

Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's...

They bear down upon Westminster, the ghost-consecrated Abbey, and the history-crammed Hall, through the arches of the bridge with a rush as the tide swelters round them; the city is buried in a dusky...

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump...

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one...