London Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Lillie Langtry

  Princess, Night, Duchess

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• You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

  Seymour Hicks

  Birthday, Boys, Age

  In C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7

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• If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

  Jeremy London

  Snowboarding, World, Honest

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• In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

  Antal Szerb

  Mind, Months, November

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• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sweet, Hate, Eye

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dog, Attitude, Character

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• I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Boys, Cbgb

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• It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, Queens, Forget

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.118, Glendower Media

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• In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Church Bells, Scream

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.650, Ageless Reads

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• Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!

  Roy Orbison

  Differences, People, World

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

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• Tolerance is forced on people in London.

  Graham Norton

  People, Tolerance

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• Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

  William Shenstone

  Expenses

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• I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

  Graham Swift

  Sound

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

  Graham Swift

  Hate, Walks, Feels

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Europe, Two, House

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'". interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

  George Carey

  Dog, Mean, Boys

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• I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

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• 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.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, Drama, School

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

  Naveen Andrews

  Believe, Home, People

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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• The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

  Hayley Atwell

  Survival Mode, Mind, Different

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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Dad, Aunt, Virginia

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, Way

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

  Nicole Beharie

  Father, Littles, Bugs

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• When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

  Antony Beevor

  Firsts, Excitement, Novel

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• I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

  Delta Burke

  Want

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