London Quotes

• My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Cousin, Gay, Comedy

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• There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Travel

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• London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Wish, Noble, Gestures

  "London: The Biography". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 2000.

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• London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

  William Sansom

  Hate, Habit, Loses

  William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”

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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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• I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

  Walter Besant

  Years, Lasts, Thirty

  "Today" (London, England : 1893), Volumes 16-17, 1897.

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• I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

  Ben Okri

  Home, Literature, Dickens

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• London is a roost for every bird.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Bird, Roost, City Of London

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”

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• I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Hate, Rain

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• I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

  Boris Becker

  Home, Favourite City, Cities

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• 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

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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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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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Dreamer, Looks

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• 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

  Soul, Theatre, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Dark, Night, Curves

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Epitome, Our Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

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• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Poetic, Deeper, Poetry Is

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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

  Teenager, Rocks, Iceland

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  Orlando Bloom

  Years, Three, Roles

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• 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

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

  Lillie Langtry

  Princess, Night, Duchess

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• 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.

  Seymour Hicks

  Birthday, Boys, Age

  In C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7

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• If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

  Jeremy London

  Snowboarding, World, Honest

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