Contemporary literature Quote by Saira Viola

“The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy…

— Tom Cox

“Oh, sure, they’d insisted I take Washington Wife class after I’d inadvertently insulted the Prime Minster of England, but how could I have known…

— Gini Koch

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Greenwich is a funny word, isn't it? All green and witchy. Like soup.”

— Marissa Meyer

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

— Oscar Wilde

“He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there…

— Charles Dickens

“Blaise decided that the thing he would remember most about this London was the sour stink of it. The overripe foulness of the streets…

— Teresa Flavin

“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on…

— Garry Crystal

“...when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is a queer little world that inhabits these quarters – speaking every known dialect of the British Isles – but they get on…

— D.E. Stevenson

“You asked what the Londoners wanted of you, and he…he said ‘ballocks.”

— Sharon Kay Penman