Top London Quotes

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when A...

London Definition

(n.) The capital city of England.

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you...

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

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...

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black,...

London is a roost for every bird.

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...

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...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historica...

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...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going t...

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

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

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

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

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

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

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.