London-below Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“I left London to migrate to Manchester because at that time it was -- if you had a personality disorder and a good record…

— James Maker

“He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as if the…

— Susanna Clarke

“Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“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

“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another”

— Mary Balogh

“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

“He settled in his beautiful Georgian house in Lymington surrounded by beautiful things. He knew how to live well, perhaps without regard for his…

— Dennis Wheatley

“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

“Mostly, though, he made people laugh, with wicked impersonations of everyone around him: clients, lawyers, clerks, even the cleaning woman. When Pickwick Papers came…

— Simon Callow

“There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a…

— Arnold Bennett

“He had lived in it for about three years, ever since he had moved out of London because it made him nervous and irritable.…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Martin Amis