London Clubs Quote by Oscar Wilde

“My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals who…

— Pat Conroy

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always…

— Pat Conroy

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

— Bram Stoker

“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing everyday. My friends pursued their course with uneventfulness; they…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“London was like a drug - an incredible high you never wanted to come off of. It made you feel like you could do…

— Chanel Cleeton

“You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you.”

— Charles Dickens

“Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually, down and…

— Josip Novakovich

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name…

— Euripides

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“Clubs spoke so bluntly . . . so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn’t even really a pessimist; he just said the things…

— Brandon Sanderson