Bells Quote by John Betjeman

Silver bells, silver bells, It's Christmas time in the city.

— Ray Evans

“We are far from liking London well enough till we like its defects: the dense darkness of much of its winter, the soot on…

— Henry James

“Christmas ribbons decked every crystal ball knocker on every sparkling door as far as the eye could see. Through the snowy streets of the…

— Dew Pellucid

“From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes - all…

— Beatrix Potter

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . .…

— Evelyn Waugh

“It was Christmas night, the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye,…

— T.H. White

London is a great place to be over Christmas.

— Bill Bailey

“London is a friend whom I can leave knowing without doubt that she will be the same to me when I return, to-morrow or…

— Stella Benson

“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered…

— E. M. Forster

“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

— Neil Gaiman

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

— Alfred the Great