London Quotes · Page 30

I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.

— Lennie James

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

— Harry Enfield

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

— Alan Rickman

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

— James Blake

“London? It's a city full of sleepwalkers chasing other people's dreams.”

— Steve Merrick

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

— Vera Lynn

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

— Woody Allen

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

— Roger Moore

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different…

— Estelle

The fact that I went back to New Zealand, a country where you are legally allowed to date, and I couldn't manage…

— Rose Matafeo

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

— Tadao Ando

I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the…

— John Lanchester

I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You…

— Daniel Sharman

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the…

— Carrie Lam

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one…

— Samuel Johnson

London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely…

— Abi Morgan

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and…

— Nina Berberova

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern…

— Tony Judt

Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what…

— Maureen Johnson

All generations think the present moment is the greatest but also have this fascination with before their time. I do the same…

— Ad-Rock

'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to…

— Armaan Malik

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want…

— James Righton

The house I've bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you'd said to me…

— Dominic Holland

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only…

— Sean Connery

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

— Dev Patel

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

— Thomas Gray

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

— Tom Hooper

The City of London is always going to be there and will continue to be important.

— Jose Angel Gurria

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

— Bradley Wiggins

I love London. It is such a melting pot. Everything is here.

— Edgar Davids

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

— Luke Treadaway

I got the same recognition in Russia in one week that I got in London after five years.

— Sergei Polunin

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

— Carey Mulligan

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

— Robert Vaughn

It's very important for me to play in London. It's a wonderful city.

— Gianluca Vialli

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

— Catherine Helen Spence

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

— Brigitte Nielsen

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

— Angela Carter