London Quotes · Page 25

Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

— Brian Azzarello

“Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea.”

— Rebecca Paula

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.

— Juergen Teller

London's night economy is huge and it couldn't function without London's night buses.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

When I drive through London at night I think: 'Gosh this is such a beautiful city.'

— Monica Galetti

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

— Boris Becker

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

— Chris Ofili

Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.

— Charley Boorman

It was so much fun working with Rimmel. We're inspired by many of the same things: fashion, color, sounds, style, life in…

— Rita Ora

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

— Suranne Jones

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school.…

— Prunella Scales

Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled…

— Lolo Jones

Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which…

— Shirley Hazzard

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run…

— Victoria Beckham

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation…

— Walter Russell Mead

[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in…

— V. S. Pritchett

London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind…

— Nick Lowe

What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light…

— Cassandra Clare

For me, it is amazing to be in England. To be in London and playing for Spurs will be great for me.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

— Santiago Cabrera

The first time I met Faria Alam was at the Football Association offices in London.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

— Phyllida Lloyd

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

— Jane Austen

London’s where I was brought up. It’s where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,

— Alexander McQueen

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

— Jonathan Swift

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

— Edward Ruscha

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

— Pete Doherty

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.

— Jonathan Ive

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

— Isak Dinesen

London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.

— Jason Statham

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it.

— Georgia Groome

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

— David Boreanaz

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

— William Monahan