London Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.