Quote by Jane Austen

“If we have largely forgotten the physical discomforts of the itching, oppressive garments of the past and the corrosive effects of perpetual physical discomfort…

— Angela Carter

“…I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don’t bathe much…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“The smells arose from everything, everywhere, flowing together and remaining as a sickening, tantalizing discomfort. They flowed from the delicatessen shop with its uncovered…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“Fish and visitors stink after three days.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“of a London nearly two centuries gone, back when it was a pox-infested, grimy, depressing, fog-bound, class-favoring, sprawling, noxious, odorous, and overall distasteful place…

— Peter David

“Ah, fish, there is no fare Quite like a flounder! They surely will not miss A piece or two from stacks of sole like…

— Henry N. Beard

“London is good for two things — excellent Scotch and leaving.I miss them both, especially as I often partake of one while doing the…

— Karen Hawkins

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“Food scarcity was not uncommon in the bathypelagic zones, and so they had learned to come up to the surface, to lure in prey…

— Mira Grant

“Fish and visitors stink after three days, according to Mr. Benjamin Franklin.”

— Johanna Moran