Common Quote by Samuel Johnson

“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

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's…

— Henry Van Dyke

“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.”

— John Fowles

“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. ”

— John Fowles

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below.…

— Rose George

“Because it is the triumph of a lack of planning –both for good and bad. It's chaos –and whether you say that with a…

— China Miéville

“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

“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city -…

— Mark Billingham

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady…

— A. A. Gill