London Quotes · Page 12

I miss London on nights in June or in October.

— Raza Jaffrey

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.

— Anonymous

My first days in London were not easy.

— Thibaut Courtois

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

— Marie Bashkirtseff

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

— Virginia Woolf

The gondola of London [a hansom].

— Benjamin Disraeli

In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

— Elizabeth McGovern

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

— Samuel Johnson

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

— Dorothy Parker

I got on a train to London when I was 18 and never moved back.

— Lesley Sharp

“Andrea much in London?’ ‘No. She was more Kardashian bling.”

— Robert Bryndza

“And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

— John Betjeman

Work is in London, but my heart will always be in Birmingham.

— Alison Hammond

With TV shows that film in London, you're pretty much around for your kids, so that's good.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

— Cassandra Clare

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

— Robyn Davidson

Working on 'Open All Hours' had some unexpected perks, not least the attractions of the canteen at the BBC's rehearsal studios in…

— David Jason

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but…

— Robert Fortune

“There's more to life than just London," said Nightingale. "People keep saying that," I said. "But I've never actually seen any proof.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.

— Jessie Buckley

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the…

— Muhammad Ali

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Living with a facial disfigurement, in a busy city like London, means I am rarely invisible. Even something as simple as a…

— Adam Pearson

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was…

— John Galsworthy

I arrived in London and I was terrified. I never wanted to be a celebrity - one minute I was in school…

— Amy Macdonald

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;…

— Anna Quindlen

Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in…

— Eric Hiscock

September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in…

— Louis MacNeice

In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or…

— Rosie Fellner

I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the…

— Jonny Bairstow

Paris is a beautiful city.

— Bubba Watson

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

— Alan Furst

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

— Marc Jacobs

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

— David Morrissey

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Ewan McGregor and I travelled 20,000 miles from London to New York by bike. It was incredible.

— Charley Boorman

“I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.”

— Jacqueline E. Smith