London Quotes

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

London is a modern Babylon.

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

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

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

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

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.

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.

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.