London Quote by Oscar Wilde

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“This was London, in all its filth and glory. Nostalgic for the past, while yearning to cast off the chains of bygone ages and…

— Marie Brennan

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable…

— Anna Quindlen

“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

“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

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious…

— John Bytheway

“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

“These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years…

— Bram Stoker

“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should…

— Oscar Wilde

“With all its ethnic and cultural diversity, there’s nowhere else like London for tolerance , compassion and humanity.”

— Mouloud Benzadi