London Quotes · Page 16

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

— Maureen Johnson

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

— Peter Ackroyd

“Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I was a hairstylist in London up until the age of 21, working in Sloane Square.

— Henry Golding

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

— Rob Beckett

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

— Ellie Simmonds

When I was a youngster my grandparents took me sightseeing and we went on the London Eye.

— Stuart Broad

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

— James Cleverly

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could…

— Eric Whitacre

There were a lot of people in Manchester that I was connected to, so it is a bit different coming to London…

— Danny Welbeck

I only tend to use YouTube for learning difficult guitar things or music videos. I tend to just walk around London and…

— Nina Nesbitt

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too.…

— Julie Delpy

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets…

— Oona Chaplin

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

— G-Eazy

I've used Fender Strats with Marshalls since forever, though since I last played London, I've switched to my YJM Seymour Duncan pickups,…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of…

— Charles Hazlewood

I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it's never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I…

— Richard Quest

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign…

— Anonymous

I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about…

— Roger Deakins

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the…

— Sebastian Coe

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I…

— Jasmine Guinness

There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so…

— Russell Mael

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and…

— John Evelyn

I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.

— Alek Wek

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

— Toby Jones

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

— Boris Johnson

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

— Antal Szerb

I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

— Ben Lovett

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

— Clive Owen

When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath.

— Sean Pertwee

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

— Ng Chin Han

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

— Jim Kerr

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

— William Shakespeare

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

— Arabella Weir

The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.

— G-Dragon

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

— Anais Nin

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

— Tony Greig

In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

— Frances Xavier Cabrini