Beauty Quote by Elizabeth Wilson

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

“I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but…

— Arbella Stuart

“Old and blended in, another worn feature of this worn city that no one notices much and no one will miss. How, she wondered,…

— Lucretia Grindle

“They have made me understand how the City can get under your skin, and never be sweated out. I mean, it’s still aesthetically traumatic,…

— Kamila Shamsie

“The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.”

— Benny Bellamacina

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.”

— Ali Shaw

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city”

— Thabo Katlholo