London Quotes - Page 3

• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

  Jeremy Northam

  Love, Peace, Light

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• To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

  Norman Granz

  Next Week, Years, Play

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• There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

  Irvine Welsh

  Edinburgh, Literature, Stuff

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• My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

  Peter Shaffer

  Childhood, Adolescence

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• Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

  Cliff Stearns

  Morning, Jitters, Thursday

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• As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

  David Naughton

  Play, Students, Shows

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Where You Live, Literature

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• I'd never have written the big books in London.

  Jilly Cooper

  Book, Bigs, Written

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• I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Fighting, Catholic, Balls

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• I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

  Richard O'Brien

  Drama, School, Theatre

  Interview with Victoria Moore, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born

  George Galloway

  Party, Apology, East

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• It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

  Ernie Pyle

  Night, Fire, Literature

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Air, Idlers

  A Study in Scarlet ch. 1 (1888)

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• If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Parks, Wonder

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz [i.e. Charles Dickens] ... With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.67

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• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

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• Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

  Jane Austen

  Healthy, England, Londoners

  Jane Austen (1854). “Emma: A Novel”, p.91

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• As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill, I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Land, Gold, Pearls

  "Romances (London)". Book by Henry Howarth Bashford, 1917.

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• You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Ebb And Flow, Depth

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 193

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• I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Travel, Paris, Earth

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.330, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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.

  Kylie Minogue

  Laughing, Treasure, Pages

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• It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sunday, Afternoon, Earth

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 2 'The Pleasures of Opium'

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• London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

  William Dunbar

  Art, Flower, Cities

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• The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

  Stephen Fry

  Sacred, Royal, Common

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.551, Penguin

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• Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Brilliant, Idiot

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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