London Quotes · Page 37

“I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.”

— Nick Bantock

“Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London.”

— Benedict Jacka

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

— Usain Bolt

“Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Andrea much in London?’ ‘No. She was more Kardashian bling.”

— Robert Bryndza

I got on a train to London when I was 18 and never moved back.

— Lesley Sharp

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

— Dorothy Parker

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

— Ken Livingstone

I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up…

— Adam Hicks

The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to…

— Denny Laine

I've never understood why the knowledge training and rigorous testing of London cabbies isn't rolled out all over the U.K.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you…

— Charles Lamb

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a…

— Anthony Quinn

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which…

— Edward Enninful

By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads…

— David Olusoga

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she…

— Virginia Woolf

My memories are beautiful because my wife Joan is English and shortly after we were married, we stayed in London and I…

— Stan Lee

I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house.…

— Deanna Raybourn

It's weird leaving London - you go through the fields between London and Essex and think, 'This is so beautiful - why…

— Joe Thomas

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their…

— Oscar Wilde

My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but…

— Charlie Worsham

It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there…

— Erin Morgenstern

I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

— Cara Buono

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

— Ana Castillo

London derbies are that little bit more special; there's that little bit more feeling.

— Harry Kane

Ewan McGregor and I travelled 20,000 miles from London to New York by bike. It was incredible.

— Charley Boorman

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

— David Morrissey

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

With TV shows that film in London, you're pretty much around for your kids, so that's good.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

— Cassandra Clare

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

— Robyn Davidson

“And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

— John Betjeman

Work is in London, but my heart will always be in Birmingham.

— Alison Hammond

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

— Orlando Bloom

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

— Cliff Stearns

So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

— Alice Lowe

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

— Essie Davis