Quote by Charles Dickens

“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

“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.”

— Anna Quindlen

“whether in London’s ornate arcades or Rio’s fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture,…

— Edward L. Glaeser

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

— Noël Coward

“Big, bulbous, ruddy buildings with vast ballrooms, grand, angular staircases, and as many turrets and crenellations as a recreational condom. The”

— Douglas Adams

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

“I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset,…

— Michael Palin

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less…

— Louis Bayard

“Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of…

— Frank Beddor

“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough with access…

— Kate Griffin