I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in…

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I was thrown together with Florence, or 'Florawns' as she was called, a pert girl of nineteen who worked in our kitchen and was…

— Martine Bailey

“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Do you have a leather jacket? One for a ten-year-old boy?" I asked the man selling leather jackets and gloves in Covent Garden, London.…

— C. JoyBell C

“The Cocoa-Nut Tree at Covent Garden? Why it's the finest confectioner in the capital and sells bonbons, macaroons, candied fruits, and ices,' I said…

— Martine Bailey

I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a…

— Caterina Murino

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

— Jonathan Miller

This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as…

— Thomas Sydenham

When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to…

— Iain Matthews

“And what did you do during that year before I met you?" "Just figured stuff out. Craig told me what to expect, so I…

— Elizabeth Segrave

“I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm loving being in the West End. There's something marvellous about Covent Garden in the summer. There's such an infusion of people and tourists.…

— Tara Fitzgerald

In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes…

— Howard Ashman