London Quotes

It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

Don't send a poet to London.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

England? England is in London right?

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.