Alleys Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Are they not fresh and beautiful?" [Watson] cried... Holmes shook his head gravely. "... You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins”

— Oscar Wilde

“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under…

— Helene Hanff

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

— Noël Coward

“It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And if these objecting London-born men stuck their faces past their own dirty alleys — oh, far edges of the world — then they…

— Michelle Butler Hallett

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“With all its ethnic and cultural diversity, there’s nowhere else like London for tolerance , compassion and humanity.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should…

— Oscar Wilde

“God knows I never had shade nor shadow of a doubt of my petrified and indestructible honesty until now—and now, under the very first…

— Mark Twain

“Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what…

— Oscar Wilde