London Quotes · Page 13

London has always been my favourite city. I visit it almost every other year.

— Karan Patel

I enjoy the discipline of work and then being coughed out on to the streets of London.

— Tara Fitzgerald

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

— Emile Zola

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

— James Righton

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

— Sadiq Khan

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.

— Raphael Saadiq

I met one time Reece James when I was in London in a restaurant. Amazing guy.

— Joao Felix

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared…

— Charles Hazlewood

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

— Munira Mirza

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London…You can’t give me the addresses. Nor…

— Alain Ducasse

I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home…

— Jose Mourinho

One of my agents once said I was one of the most dangerous men in London, and I was so excited by…

— Howard Jacobson

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are…

— Julian Barnes

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the…

— Tom Hiddleston

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

— Oscar Wilde

I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor…

— Masayoshi Son

The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory…

— Llyr Huws Gruffydd

Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to…

— Robert Montgomery

I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that's when a friendly shopkeeper told…

— Pranitha Subhash

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan…

— Mark Haddon

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast…

— Julian Barnes

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted.…

— Georgette Heyer

It was a waste of time to sit on the bench in London.

— Wojciech Szczesny

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

— Trisha Goddard

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

— Elizabeth Bowen

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

— Keeley Hawes

I've fought in London. I've fought in Los Angeles. I've fought in New York.

— Gervonta Davis

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

— Pierce Brosnan

I love fashion from all over the world, from Japan to London to Italy.

— Divock Origi

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

— Erik Larson

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

— John Boyega

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

— Emma Healey

For me, watching the 1985 London Marathon was a seminal moment.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

— Groucho Marx

I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London.

— Stephane Rolland

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

— Eric Idle

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

— Kanika Dhillon

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

— Colin Farrell