London Quotes - Page 2

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  V. S. Naipaul

  World, Lost, Hard

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• London is the clearing-house of the world.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  House, World, Clearing

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

  Jane Austen

  Healthy, Truth Is, Seasons

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.87

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• Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Age, Texture

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, People, Care

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• London is a modern Babylon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Modern, Babylon

  'Tancred' (1847) bk. 5, ch. 5

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.237, The Floating Press

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• The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, World

  1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

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• This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

  William Butler Yeats

  Air, Soul, Sometimes

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

  Sleep, Atoms, Writing Words

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

  Steven Berkoff

  Thinking, Important, States

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• After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

  Alex Winter

  Change, New York, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Winter, Weather, Bahamas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Unhappy

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.24, OUP Oxford

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• I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

  Rhona Mitra

  Exam, Fine

  "Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

  Katie Price

  Travel, Hate, People

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• There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Cities

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.418, Northwestern University Press

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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• I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

  Henry Hudson

  Hands, Return, Persuasion

  "Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession; [the Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer]". Book by Corey Sandler, Citadel Press, p. 119, 2008.

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• I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

  Trisha Goddard

  Drink, Holes

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• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Sarah Zettel

  Summer, College, Tea

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• The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

  Henry Mayhew

  Wall, Cities, Space

  Henry Mayhew (2016). “The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts”, p.42, Routledge

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• I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

  Mimi Rogers

  Mimi, Stage, Wanted

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• The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

  Mimi Rogers

  School, Kids, Past

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