London Quotes - Page 5

• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cities, Heaven, Hell

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Flames, Cities, House

  Archibald MacLeish, William Samuel Paley, Edward R. Murrow (1941). “In Honor of a Man and an Ideal...: Three Talks on Freedom”

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• I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

  James Agate

  Horse, New York, Night

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

  Henry Bessemer

  World, March, New World

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Zero, Paris, Bigs

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• I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

  Mose Allison

  Play, Gigs, Moments

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• London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Places You Go, Bronchitis

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• When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger

  Lee Ryan

  Clubs, Looking Good, Blokes

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• London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

  Bradley Wiggins

  Earth, Host, Shows

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• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  Otto Schily

  Hands, Subway, Add

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• A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

  T. S. Eliot

  Bridges, Crowds, Undone

  The Waste Land l. 60 (1922).

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• I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Gay, Artist, Men

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

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• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  Orlando Bloom

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

  Peter Shaffer

  New York, Oil Painting, Watercolors

  The New York Times, April 13, 1975.

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• I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Coward, Obscurity, Rust

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.48, Xist Publishing

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• Nothing is certain in London but expense.

  William Shenstone

  Certain, Expenses

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• Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

  Claire Forlani

  Missing, Spirit, Sometimes

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Dreamer, Looks

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• There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

  Christian Slater

  Soul, Theatre, Littles

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

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• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

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• As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

  Goldwin Smith

  Poetic, Deeper, Poetry Is

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

  Bjork

  Teenager, Rocks, Iceland

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  Orlando Bloom

  Years, Three, Roles

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• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  Marie Corelli

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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