Conventions Quote by Ada Leverson

“There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit murder. It…

— Gideon Defoe

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become…

— Claude Monet

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs,…

— Oscar Wilde

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters…

— Peter Ackroyd

“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields and the…

— Virginia Woolf

“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields and the…

— Virginia Woolf

“London is a friend whom I can leave knowing without doubt that she will be the same to me when I return, to-morrow or…

— Stella Benson

“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city -…

— Mark Billingham

“We are far from liking London well enough till we like its defects: the dense darkness of much of its winter, the soot on…

— Henry James

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti