London Quotes - Page 4

• Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Brilliant, Idiot

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Names, Found

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  People, Giving, Monkeys

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• 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

  Sunday, Afternoon, Earth

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• 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

  Art, School, Stuff

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• 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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• 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

  Play, Gigs, Moments

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cities, Heaven, Hell

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

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• I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

  Sarah Brightman

  Mother, Home, House

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• On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

  Henry Bessemer

  World, March, New World

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Paris, House

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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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• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

  James Keller

  Wall, Adversity, Cells

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• An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

  Donald Sinden

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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• 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

  Clubs, Looking Good, Blokes

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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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• I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

  James Agate

  Horse, New York, Night

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Girl, Eye, Black

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• I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that

  Imelda Staunton

  Years, Theatre, Six

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• 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

  Men, Drawing, Gentleman

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.82, Charles Kingsley

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• 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

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Zero, Paris, Bigs

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• Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  Sam Mendes

  Running, Home, Want

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

  Ewan McGregor

  Towns, Plans

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