London Quotes · Page 28

“Looking at the rich and powerful was dangerous, like peering into the sun.”

— Frances Hardinge

I feel really good in Paris, and I have no problems here whatsoever.

— Blaise Matuidi

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

— Douglas Adams

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

— Clement Attlee

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

— Jeremy Hunt

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

— Charles Finch

I've always known I was going to perform and live in London.

— Hannah John-Kamen

I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing…

— John Ratzenberger

I've never been outside Heathrow so it will be exciting to see what London has to offer. I think I've only flown…

— Misty May-Treanor

“In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of…

— Henry Adams

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird.…

— Bjork

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so…

— China Mieville

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It…

— Lady Starlight

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to…

— Frankie Boyle

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if…

— Edmund White

“Cos there's holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of…

— Ian Ayris

In the very early years of our marriage I took seriously ill and I had to be hospitalised in London. Leaving everything…

— Saira Banu

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My…

— Tom Hooper

Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York…

— Christina Hendricks

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's…

— Brian Cox

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I…

— Colin Firth

“Of course we will send postcards to Nutsawoo. And we shall bring him back a present as well. In fact,' she went…

— Maryrose Wood

In the new series of 'Foyle's War,' London starts to get bombed, and the country falls under heavy attack. It affects people's…

— Anthony Howell

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

— Horace

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

— Paul Theroux

I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.

— Fernando Meirelles

“It's not that I hate London, I just hate what it represents." Nick nodded knowingly. "Tea.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug”

— Monica Ali

My daughter has studied in London and when she came back, she wanted to be a stand up comedian.

— Johnny Lever

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

— Boris Johnson

“Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.”

— Jennifer Worth

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

— Thomas Moore

Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy.

— Lester Persky

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

— Rachael Stirling

“The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port." -Mgru”

— Stephen Moles

I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

— Arthur Potts Dawson

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

I heard London is nice, so maybe it is. But I've only been to the armpit of England.

— Matt Riddle

There's a real pace to New York life which in reality London doesn't match.

— Jonathan Bailey