Action Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater…

— E.M. Forster

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

— Sarah Pinborough

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can…

— Alain de Botton

“I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest…

— Peter Ackroyd

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are…

— Emma Thompson

“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health care, crime,…

— Geoffrey West

“I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors’ families, and social occasions had been…

— Tracy Chevalier

“She saw the London of the future. Not the vision popular just then: a soaring whirl of machinery in motion, of moving pavements and…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“while, and told them that London was the place by which they, that is, the townsmen of Epping, and all the country round them,…

— Daniel Defoe

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

— Munira Mirza

“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under…

— Helene Hanff

The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the…

— Peter York