London Quotes
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
Virginia Woolf
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My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Jack Roy
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New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
Ian Blair
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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.
Declan Lynch
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I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
Charlotte Bronte
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There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.
Cornelia Parker
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
Thomas Carlyle
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
John Maynard Keynes
