London Quotes
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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
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I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!
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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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London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.
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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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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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I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.
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London is a very energising place to be.
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In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.
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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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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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But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
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England? England is in London right?
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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've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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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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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.
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I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
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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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I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.
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Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the ‘London once-over’ – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
