London Quotes - Page 19

• New York has a great energy, but London is better.

  Jaime Winstone

  New York, Energy

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• The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Kings, Play

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• I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

  Jan Struther

  Cat, Kitchen, Black

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

  Iris Murdoch

  Able, Forget, Dear

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.7, Penguin

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• If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Fashion, Punishment, Opera

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.188

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• I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Cities, Earth

  "John Cleese joins 7.30". Interview with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. August 31, 2011.

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

  Harriet Martineau

  Queens, America, Evil

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.317, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Country, People, May

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

  Susan Mitchell

  Dark, Irritation, Atmosphere

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

  Munir Butt

  Unbearable, Clean, Used

  The Business Magazine, 2006.

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• When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

  Peter Capaldi

  Dream, Fun, Smoking

  "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

  Russell Brand

  Religious, Psychosis, Government

  "Wild emotions are all very well, Russell Brand, but then what?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.

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• The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Sorry, Together

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• When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

  David Suchet

  Real, Shooting, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

  Natascha McElhone

  Oasis, Library, Wonderful

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• The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

  Amelia Warner

  Views, Bridges, Waterloo

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• Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

  Charlie Cox

  Dream, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

  Jaime Murray

  Home, Unique, British

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• It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

  Clement Attlee

  Nice, Government, Car

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• I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

  Mary Borden

  Life, Done, Reason Why

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• Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Childhood, Done, Said

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• 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.

  Eleanor Catton

  Moving, Different, Would Be

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• I love London, I love the British people.

  Yohan Blake

  People, British

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