London Quotes · Page 16

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

— Erik Larson

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

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

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Trisha Goddard

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

— Wojciech Szczesny

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life.…

— Daniel Craig

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London…

— Kenneth Clarke

A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.

— A. A. Gill

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

— Nigel Farage

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's…

— Sarita Choudhury

I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around…

— Alexis Sanchez

Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with…

— Cressida Bonas

Back in the Seventies, we bucked the trend. Instead of going to London and handing in a demo tape, we insisted the…

— Jim Kerr

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's…

— Thomas Hood

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as…

— Norman Foster

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but…

— Ben Brantley

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that…

— James Taylor

“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and…

— John Lanchester

London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New…

— Sadiq Khan

People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As…

— Ric Flair

A year after I got married, 'Prem Kahani,' 'Roti' and 'Aap Ki Kasam' released. I refused 'Safar,' 'Haathi Mere Saathi'... because I…

— Mumtaz

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

— Joao Felix

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

— Raphael Saadiq

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Sadiq Khan

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

— James Righton

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

— Emile Zola

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

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

— Thomas Jefferson

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

— Essie Davis

I spend a lot of time in London and I miss California. Of course, when I'm in California I miss London.

— Hope Sandoval

I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!

— Tyler Oakley

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

— Sebastian Faulks

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