London Quotes

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

When I am in London, I think my favourite city is London, but when I am in New York, I feel it is New York. It is very hard to choose between the two.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

I love living in London.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!

I hope to see London once ere I die.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

London is a roost for every bird.

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

I didn't care, because I loved him, and that was the end of every argument and the beginning of every promise.

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...

And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.

The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to.

Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back.

And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.

Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.

I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.