London Quotes

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...

These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for so...

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab...

Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being...

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian pligh...

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled...

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

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets,...

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage...

The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant ...

I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and gr...

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh...

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer t...

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

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

And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north Lo...

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Par...

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...

A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach wi...

Three years in London had not changed Richard, although it had changed the way he perceived the city...

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those...

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was bo...

Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walt...

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything ...

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Sp...

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had n...

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

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.I wipe t...

I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow;A mark in every fac...

She'd first seen Covent Garden after a heavy snow, walking with her hand in Win's, and she remembers...

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through t...

The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the count...

A sprawling North London parkland, composed of oaks, willows and chestnuts, yews and sycamores, the ...

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since...

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

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the ...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been mad...

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to l...

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gig...

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

London is a roost for every bird.