London Quotes · Page 21

I moved to London to get an agent, though that took a while - everyone said no, understandably.

— Claudia Jessie

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the most important thing and a lot of kids in south London get distracted from education.

— Jadon Sancho

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

— Sol Campbell

I love when I go back to London. I love how the girls dress there.

— Hannah Simone

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

— Swami Vivekananda

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and…

— Maeve Binchy

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like…

— Eva Green

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they…

— Neil Tennant

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as…

— Neil Oliver

There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which…

— Steve Bannon

[I]n the gloomy month of February… The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at…

— Washington Irving

Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd…

— Jane Fallon

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in…

— Rachael Stirling

The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by…

— Mike Harding

All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught…

— Sadiq Khan

I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around.…

— Cara Delevingne

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too.…

— Doris Lessing

Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student…

— David Lammy

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person…

— Harriet Martineau

London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought…

— Tom Ford

In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for…

— Warren MacKenzie

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.

— Louise Closser Hale

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

— Zac Goldsmith

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

— Ellie Simmonds

I mean, in theatre, you can't really save that much money when you live in London.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

— Walter Besant

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

— John Dryden

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the…

— David Naughton

At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.

— Ben Fogle

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

— Ma Jian

It's so busy in London, and I'm used to the countryside, fields, family, the horses and stuff.

— Millie Bright

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

— Jim Broadbent

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

— Paula Radcliffe

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I want to stay in London. I am very happy here, and so are my family. I like the city.

— Luka Modric

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

— Ruth Bradley