London Quotes - Page 29

• I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

  Lake Bell

  College, Drug, Curriculum

  "Lake Bell Talks "How To Make In America," Embarrassing Boyfriends, and Kid Cudi". Interview By Andrew Rivera, www.complex.com. April 3, 2010.

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Attachment, Done, Intense

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.108

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, People, Towns

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• Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Baby, Peace, War

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• George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, "So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

  Milton Friedman

  Here I Am, Weight, Letters

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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• London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

  Nick Lowe

  Real, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

  J. C. Chandor

  New York, Dad, Cities

  "Director: ‘Margin Call’ Relevant To Occupy Movement", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I love the free spirit in London.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Free Spirit, Spirit

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• I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

  Keith Teare

  Raises, Hard

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Religion, Towers

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• Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eggs, Battle

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• Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Country, Children

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• Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sports, Spring, Book

  "The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

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• New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  New York, People, Lovers

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• The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Flower, Would Be

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.98

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• I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

  Graham Swift

  Sound

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

  Graham Swift

  Hate, Walks, Feels

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Europe, Two, House

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'". interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• 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

  Dog, Mean, Boys

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• I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, Drama, School

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

  Naveen Andrews

  Believe, Home, People

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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