London Quotes · Page 18

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

— Tony Visconti

“You don't think you're a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.”

— Jennifer Loiske

I prefer audiences away from London because they're more appreciative.

— Sean Lock

“You’ll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me!”

— A.F. Stewart

I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't live in London.

— Richard Bacon

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

— James Weldon Johnson

I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

— Peter Shaffer

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the…

— Asafa Powell

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York.…

— Robert De Niro

When I sold my flat in Glasgow, I bought a little cottage on the North Yorkshire coast. Whenever we go up from…

— John Tiffany

I couldn't believe I was homeless and working in Harrods. How many people must be going through this in London?

— Ncuti Gatwa

I'm old and boring in London and get really tired around midnight. But in Berlin, I had this new lease of life…

— Emily Berrington

I think, French girls, we are not the most stylish women in the world. For me, New Yorkers are more stylish, or…

— Jeanne Damas

How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?

— Sadiq Khan

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure…

— Emma McKeon

Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by…

— Neil Gaiman

Prior to moving over to the U.K. I would never have thought I was plus size. And then I started working with…

— CMAT

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty…

— Theo James

I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily…

— Samuel Johnson

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being…

— Alison Jackson

Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie,…

— Warren MacKenzie

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

— Alexander Pope

I joined the Lib Dem party at the Freshers' Fair at the London School of Economics.

— Jo Swinson

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

— Haile Gebrselassie

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

— Jenny Packham

I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving.

— Charlotte Ritchie

Walking around town and driving around London - it's like a fashion show on every corner.

— Ashley Roberts

I want to go to London and let them decide if I am any good or not. New York is too soft.

— Cole Escola

“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”

— Anthony Horowitz

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

— Robert Smythe Hichens

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!

— John Burgon

I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.

— Boris Johnson

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

— Natalie Imbruglia

I enjoy playing on grass and I enjoy being in London.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

— David Jason

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

— Ananya Birla

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

— Alan Titchmarsh