City Of London Quotes

• It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

  George VI

  Wall, Cities, People

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• 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

  Air, Soul, London

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”

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• London is a roost for every bird.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Bird, London, Roost

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”

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• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Tired, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 20 Sept. 1777)

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• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

  Bette Midler

  Inspirational, New York, Humorous

  Quoted in Jerusalem Post, 24 Feb. 1989

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• Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

  Angela Carter

  Sex, New York, Men

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.371

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• The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Should Have, Cities

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cities, Heaven, London

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

  Elizabeth I

  Pain, Player, Cities

  1572 Royal proclamation, banning football from the streets of London.

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• 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

  Wall, Cities, Space

  Henry Mayhew (2016). “The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts”, p.42, Routledge

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• Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Cities, House, World

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

  Jim Rogers

  Business, Moving, Thinking

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• In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Autumn, Boys

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Prince and The Pauper”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House

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• There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Cities, Income, London

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

  Betty Dodson

  Real, Cities, Names

  "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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• You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Flames, Cities, House

  Archibald MacLeish, William Samuel Paley, Edward R. Murrow (1941). “In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom”

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• We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

  Charles Clarke

  Small Numbers, Cities, Evil

  "MI5 Faces Tough Questions on Decision to Relax Security". www.independent.co.uk. July 08, 2005.

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• The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

  Jim Rogers

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Cities

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.418, Northwestern University Press

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• It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

  Philip Reeve

  Spring, Dark, Sea

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK

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• Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Commitment, Sea, Cities

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Hurt, Believe, Cities

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• On thinking about Hell, I gather
  My brother Shelley found it was a place
  Much like the city of London. I
  Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
  Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
  Still more like Los Angeles.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Brother, Thinking, Cities

  Bertolt Brecht, Erich Fried (1979). “Poems”

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