London Quotes

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. (Samuel Johnson)
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. View quote
Peter Shaffer
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. View quote
William Butler Yeats
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I love London society I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. View quote
Oscar Wilde
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
London is the clearing-house of the world. (Joseph Chamberlain)
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. View quote
Jonathan Swift
London is a modern Babylon. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
London is a roost for every bird. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky city. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. View quote
Norman Wisdom
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. View quote
Renzo Piano
Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand. View quote
Eleanor Catton
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. (Mose Allison)
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. View quote
Graham Coxon
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. View quote
Norman Granz