London Quotes

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

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

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

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

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

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

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

The best thing about London is Paris.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

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.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

Don't send a poet to London.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

England? England is in London right?

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, 'If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.'