London Quotes

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

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

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

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

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

The objective is to do things well in London.

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.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.