The Thames is liquid history.

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

— Natalie Dormer

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

— Jo Cox

“And at my feet the pale green Thames Lies like a rod of rippled jade.”

— Oscar Wilde

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Thou stately stream that with the swelling tide 'Gainst London walls incessantly dost beat, Thou Thames, I say, where barge and boat doth ride,…

— Anonymous

The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never…

— H. P. Lovecraft

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

— David Walliams

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown…

— Hugh Massingberd

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains…

— Julie Andrews

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I…

— Rose George

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

— Martin Freeman

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part…

— Alexander Hanson

“A RIB is a rigid inflatable boat, and this has an engine at the rear which pushes the nose up and out of the…

— Clare O'Beara