London Quotes
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Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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I am definitely a west London girl.
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.
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But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
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I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'
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I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.
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She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.
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London is a very important financial centre.
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London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.
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In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.
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London is a very energising place to be.
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As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
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England? England is in London right?
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Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
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I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
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Pincher took me to London, and Knobbie brought me away. It looked as if I were beginning to be led about by dogs.
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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.
