London Quotes
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The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
Virginia Woolf -
It was a bad night to be about with such a feeling in one's heart. The rain was cold, pitiless and increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway was muddy; the pavement greasy; the lamps burned dimly; and that dreary district of London looked its very gloomiest and worst.
Charlotte Riddell
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar -
If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
Monika Chiang -
When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
Catherine Mary Stewart -
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 -
I hope to see London once ere I die.
William Shakespeare -
Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.
Harley Pasternak
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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 -
People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
Eliot Paulina Sumner -
I am definitely a west London girl.
Amelia Warner -
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
William Shenstone -
Would I were in an alehouse in London.
William Shakespeare -
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
Lauren Graham
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The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.
Amelia Warner -
London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
William Sansom -
But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
William Shakespeare -
What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion.
Monika Chiang -
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
Sandra Oh -
My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.
Johnny Depp
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
Walter Besant -
London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest -
We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.
David Lammy -
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.
George Bernard Shaw