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London Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement…
- Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
- London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
- In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my…
- London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of…
- Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without…
- His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners…
More London Quotes
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the… — David Attenborough
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- I don't feel very optimistic in London. — David Bailey
- If you're curious, London's an amazing place. — David Bailey
- I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard
- The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively… — Gerry Adams
- On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with… — Cecil Beaton
- I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to… — Ambrose Bierce
- I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go… — Ronald Biggs
- I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household. — Jacqueline Bisset