Big city Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“This was London, after all. I had read somewhere that wherever you stand in the entire city, you’re never more than twenty yards from…

— Amanda Gefter

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“London was too big to be angry with. It took no notice of him. It did not care whether he was glad to be…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets;…

— Charlotte Bronte

“He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic,…

— William Trevor

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

— Mouloud Benzadi

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser

“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy,…

— Henry James

“...let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are they ambitious…

— Charles Dickens

“London was like a drug - an incredible high you never wanted to come off of. It made you feel like you could do…

— Chanel Cleeton

“They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it. In North London, where councillors once voted to change…

— Zadie Smith

“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo