London Quotes · Page 35

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

— David Starkey

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

— Suki Waterhouse

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

— Swami Vivekananda

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.

— Louise Closser Hale

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

— Ellie Simmonds

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

— Zac Goldsmith

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks…

— Gordon Bethune

I have had this interesting love affair with London and England, though I don't know how London feels about me.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I love England, it's my home now. But I've been to the city, the centre of London, very little, as I don't…

— Maurizio Sarri

In London, the food critics are harsher, the clients milder; in Hong Kong, the clients are harsher, the critics milder.

— Alvin Leung

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I…

— Mark Haddon

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you…

— Naveen Andrews

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

— John Lanchester

“the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and…

— Mark McShane

You're not allowed to stay in a hotel room on your own if you're under 18. I used to bring an older…

— Maisie Williams

“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of…

— Nick Hornby

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way…

— Susan Mitchell

“It is possible that the city of London was initially named for ravens or a raven-deity. According to the Oxford Companion to…

— Boria Sax

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a…

— Anonymous

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and…

— Gavin Rossdale

“Always, from the first time he went there to see Eros and the lights, that circus have a magnet for him, that…

— Samuel Selvon

What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think…

— Andre Aciman

I moved to London to get an agent, though that took a while - everyone said no, understandably.

— Claudia Jessie

“My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.

— Sadiq Khan

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

— Shirley Horn

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

— Jadon Sancho

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

— Sol Campbell

I love when I go back to London. I love how the girls dress there.

— Hannah Simone

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

— Jim Broadbent

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

— Millie Bright

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

— Paula Radcliffe

I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

— Walter Besant

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the…

— David Naughton