The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
Archibald MacLeish
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
Ken Livingstone
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Sir Seymour Hicks
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
Karl Philipp Moritz
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney Dangerfield
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
William Shenstone
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger.
Lee Ryan
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce
Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.
Teddy Sheringham
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Maureen O'Hara
London is a modern Babylon.
Benjamin Disraeli
A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Samuel Johnson
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson
On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.
Henry Bessemer
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Siobhan Davies
London is more mentally stimulating and the people more interesting that Japan.
Kelly Osbourne
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.
William Butler Yeats
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
Toby Young
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
Catherine Helen Spence
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
William Dunbar
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.
Kim Cattrall
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West
There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Christian Slater
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler
I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
Boris Becker
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
Michael Todd
We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.
Mark Knopfler
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Graham Coxon
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
Boy George
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.
Jerzy Kosinski
When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.
Mick Ralphs
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
Bjork
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
Sarah Zettel
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
Bette Midler
When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.
Julia Ormond
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson
I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.
Roger Moore
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Mordecai Richler
But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.
Guy Forget
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
Sebastian Coe
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
Charles Dickens
The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
Kyle MacLachlan
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
Tom Paulin
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
Kylie Minogue
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
Vivienne Westwood
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
Claire Forlani
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth.
Bradley Wiggins
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
Don Johnson
London is the clearing-house of the world.
Joseph Chamberlain
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes
London Transport commissioned a study to find out why buses were running late and it turned out it was because they kept stopping to let people on.
Rory McGrath
Of course I've done musicals here in London.
Norman Wisdom
I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Oscar Wilde
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
William Hazlitt
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Jane Austen
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Thomas De Quincey
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley
After living in LA for eight years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
Alex Winter
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
David Naughton
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Goldwin Smith
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
George Andrew Olah
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
Patrick White
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Marie Corelli
In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein
The parks are the lungs of London.
William Pitt
So poetry, which is in Oxford made an art, in London only is a trade.
John Dryden
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
John Osborne
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff
I would rather start out somewhere small, like London or England.
Britney Spears
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White
Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London.
Samuel Johnson
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
Ernie Pyle
Would you rather live in lively London or where a young penguin lies screaming?
Gavin Buchanan Edwart
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
Harry Nilsson
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.
Claudio Reyna
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
Ben Kingsley
Gentlemen never wear brown in London.
Lord Curzon
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
Neil Tennant
For suddenly, I saw you there and through foggy London town the sun was shining everywhere.
George Gershwin
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
Robert Mapplethorpe
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
Penelope Lively
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor
I crammed my exams in London and did fine.
Rhona Mitra
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
Colin Firth
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
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Edward M. Forster
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
Mel Smith
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
Pierce Brosnan
I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.
Katie Price
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.
Julie Christie
I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.
John Dyer
I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.
Trisha Goddard
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
Albert Finney
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Ben Okri
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton
I'd never have written the big books in London.
Jilly Cooper
I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.
Sherilyn Fenn
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx
I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
Mimi Rogers
If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
Julian Clary
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz
I thought Cambridge was in London.
Jade Goodie
I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
James Weldon Johnson
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
Catherine Helen Spence
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Ronald Biggs
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
Kate Moss
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
C. L. R. James
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Jonathan Demme
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
Anne Perry
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
Debra Messing
Hell is a city much like London. A populous and smoky city.
Percy Shelley
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
Teddy Sheringham
I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.
Delta Burke
Oscar Wilde
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
Archibald MacLeish
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
Ken Livingstone
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Sir Seymour Hicks
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
Karl Philipp Moritz
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney Dangerfield
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
William Shenstone
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger.
Lee Ryan
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce
Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.
Teddy Sheringham
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Maureen O'Hara
London is a modern Babylon.
Benjamin Disraeli
A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Samuel Johnson
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson
On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.
Henry Bessemer
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Siobhan Davies
London is more mentally stimulating and the people more interesting that Japan.
Kelly Osbourne
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.
William Butler Yeats
People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.
Toby Young
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
Catherine Helen Spence
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
William Dunbar
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.
Kim Cattrall
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West
There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Christian Slater
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler
I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.
Boris Becker
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
Michael Todd
We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.
Mark Knopfler
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Graham Coxon
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
Boy George
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.
Jerzy Kosinski
When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.
Mick Ralphs
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
Bjork
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
Sarah Zettel
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
Bette Midler
When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.
Julia Ormond
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson
I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.
Roger Moore
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Mordecai Richler
But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.
Guy Forget
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
Sebastian Coe
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
Charles Dickens
The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
Kyle MacLachlan
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
Tom Paulin
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.
Kylie Minogue
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
Vivienne Westwood
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.
Claire Forlani
London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth.
Bradley Wiggins
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.
Don Johnson
London is the clearing-house of the world.
Joseph Chamberlain
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes
London Transport commissioned a study to find out why buses were running late and it turned out it was because they kept stopping to let people on.
Rory McGrath
Of course I've done musicals here in London.
Norman Wisdom
I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Oscar Wilde
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
William Hazlitt
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Jane Austen
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Thomas De Quincey
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley
After living in LA for eight years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
Alex Winter
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
David Naughton
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Goldwin Smith
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
George Andrew Olah
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
Patrick White
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Marie Corelli
In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein
The parks are the lungs of London.
William Pitt
So poetry, which is in Oxford made an art, in London only is a trade.
John Dryden
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
John Osborne
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff
I would rather start out somewhere small, like London or England.
Britney Spears
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White
Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London.
Samuel Johnson
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
Ernie Pyle
Would you rather live in lively London or where a young penguin lies screaming?
Gavin Buchanan Edwart
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
Harry Nilsson
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.
Claudio Reyna
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
Ben Kingsley
Gentlemen never wear brown in London.
Lord Curzon
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
Neil Tennant
For suddenly, I saw you there and through foggy London town the sun was shining everywhere.
George Gershwin
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
Robert Mapplethorpe
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
Penelope Lively
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor
I crammed my exams in London and did fine.
Rhona Mitra
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
Colin Firth
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
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Edward M. Forster
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
Mel Smith
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
Pierce Brosnan
I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.
Katie Price
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.
Julie Christie
I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.
John Dyer
I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.
Trisha Goddard
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
Albert Finney
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Ben Okri
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
Imelda Staunton
I'd never have written the big books in London.
Jilly Cooper
I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.
Sherilyn Fenn
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx
I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
Mimi Rogers
If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
Julian Clary
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz
I thought Cambridge was in London.
Jade Goodie
I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
James Weldon Johnson
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
Catherine Helen Spence
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Ronald Biggs
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
Kate Moss
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
C. L. R. James
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Jonathan Demme
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
Anne Perry
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
Debra Messing
Hell is a city much like London. A populous and smoky city.
Percy Shelley
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
Teddy Sheringham
I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.
Delta Burke
Ah, die Englandreise von Karl Philipp Moritz. Das ist eine wirklich ergötzliche Reisebeschreibung, die sich kein Englandliebhaber entgehen lassen sollte.
Posted by: Sabine | 13/12/2009 at 19:32
Wunderbar!
Posted by: Ulrike | 15/12/2009 at 08:53
:) großartige Zitate!
Posted by: RA | 15/12/2009 at 21:41