London Quotes

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

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

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

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

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

Of course I've done musicals here in London.