London Quotes · Page 18

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

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

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

— Stephane Rolland

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Emma Healey

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

— T. S. Eliot

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

— Abi Morgan

I can't imagine London is different to anywhere else - people with cars are always the most popular.

— Charlotte Ritchie

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my…

— Harry Hadden-Paton

It is generally deemed acceptable to shuttle children and adults between London and Somerset every week, but the considered view is that…

— Dido Harding

When I spoke to pupils at Sydenham School in London, I was shocked and saddened to hear some of the teenage girls…

— A. J. Odudu

I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east…

— Jonathan Anderson

I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you…

— Martin McGuinness

Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place…

— Sara Bareilles

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were…

— Jean Pigozzi

Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, twice in London.

— Charlie Cox

I've worked every job under the sun, from waitressing in my teens, to clocking hours on a construction site in London (I…

— Vogue Williams

“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to…

— Catharine Arnold

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics…

— Vijender Singh

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't…

— Peter York

London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties…

— William Monahan

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether…

— John le Carre

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…

— Rose George

It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower…

— David Icke

“While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.”

— Aporva Kala

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

— China Mieville

I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

— Pierce Brosnan

This fragrance 'Parisienne' by YSL was my fave back when I lived in London.

— Snoh Aalegra

I had gone from job to job up in London before 'Fisherman's Friends'.

— Daniel Mays

We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

— Morten Harket

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

— Andrew Wyatt

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

— Yvette Mimieux

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

— Maureen Johnson

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

— Harvey Fierstein

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

— Laura Fraser

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

— Melissa George

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

— Per Mertesacker

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

— Suki Waterhouse

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

— David Starkey