London Quotes · Page 15

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

— Simon Callow

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

— Sam Riley

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

— John Osborne

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city.

— Brian Gleeson

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at…

— Alek Wek

Before doing 'Darkplace' in 2003, I was temping and at call centres, and that was pretty bad. Then I was at the…

— Matt Berry

I get homesick - I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is…

— Stefflon Don

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or…

— Graham Coxon

My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers…

— Zoe Buckman

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Ready, Steady, Go!' was the show of the '60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other…

— Dave Clark

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

— Robert Lacey

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We…

— Grace Chatto

The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college,…

— Forest Whitaker

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to…

— Erich Segal

He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a…

— John Lennon

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go…

— Jeremy Corbyn

I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After…

— Andy Murray

Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north…

— Romesh Ranganathan

The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to…

— David Rockwell

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

— Luke Hemsworth

I can't imagine London is different to anywhere else - people with cars are always the most popular.

— Charlotte Ritchie

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

— Abi Morgan

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

— T. S. Eliot

“While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.”

— Aporva Kala

This fragrance 'Parisienne' by YSL was my fave back when I lived in London.

— Snoh Aalegra

I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

— Pierce Brosnan

I had gone from job to job up in London before 'Fisherman's Friends'.

— Daniel Mays

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

— China Mieville

We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

— Morten Harket

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

— Yvette Mimieux

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

— Andrew Wyatt

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

— Laura Fraser

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

— Melissa George

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

— Harvey Fierstein