Bully Quote by Alexander Pope

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

— Amber Valletta

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

— Robert Smythe Hichens

[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic… One lives in it, afloat…

— V. S. Pritchett

“And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

— John Betjeman

“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on…

— Garry Crystal

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

— Sebastian Faulks

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by…

— Stephen Sondheim

“We drive along the streets of London, the wind in her hair, before I park us at a cliff overlooking the Thames.”

— Katy Evans

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”

— Noël Coward

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne