London Quotes · Page 19

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

— Edward Enninful

Home will always be London. Theres something unique about the British. Its about cheekiness.

— Jaime Murray

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

— Sam Riley

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

— Simon Callow

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

— Luke Hemsworth

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city.

— Brian Gleeson

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

— John Osborne

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I…

— Tracy Chevalier

By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director,…

— Anna Wintour

I've been wearing Red Roses since I was 22. Jo Malone London is woven into the fabric of my life, and I…

— Poppy Delevingne

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison,…

— Donna de Varona

I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I…

— Boris Johnson

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man…

— Dylan Thomas

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

— Renzo Piano

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours…

— Malcolm Mclaren

I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful…

— Moby

“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me…

— Elaine Sciolino

I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag…

— Holly Golightly

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre,…

— Rufus Sewell

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society…

— John Marshall

“He hadn’t realized that the ordinary little things that happened, the ones that took place between the big events while waiting for…

— Helen Smith

The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big…

— Sarah Gavron

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the…

— Peter Capaldi

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas

In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

— Antal Szerb

I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

— Ben Lovett

When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath.

— Sean Pertwee

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

— Clive Owen

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

— Jim Kerr

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

— Ng Chin Han

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

— William Shakespeare

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

— Peter Ackroyd

I was a hairstylist in London up until the age of 21, working in Sloane Square.

— Henry Golding

Where I grew up in South East London you became a cab driver or worked in a flower market.

— Rob Beckett

“Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.

— Ellie Simmonds

I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too.

— Alek Wek

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

— James Cleverly

When I was a youngster my grandparents took me sightseeing and we went on the London Eye.

— Stuart Broad