I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they…

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

“I'd give me two eyes for a slice of apple pie." She was brain-cracked, but spoke for them all. Then Tabby Jones joined in,…

— Martine Bailey

“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

“Sport, as I have discovered, fosters international hostility and leads the audience, no doubt from boredom, to assault and do grievous bodily harm while…

— John Mortimer