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“He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic,…

— William Trevor

“had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go back to…

— Irvine Welsh

“Had it not been for Mr. Drawlight and Mr. Lascelles (benevolent souls!) the Town would have been starved of information of any sort, but…

— Susanna Clarke

“London was too big to be angry with. It took no notice of him. It did not care whether he was glad to be…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another”

— Mary Balogh

“No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.”

— Maya Angelou

“I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

“London. For some reason the word didn't seem to  have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.”

— Karen Schwabach

“You know what they say; if you're tired of London, you're tired of life.”

— Warren Ellis

“When a man is tired of London, maybe he should go somewhere else. 'Going out in the Midday Sun'.”

— Kate A. Hardy