Quotes on London

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Author: Cecil Beaton

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

Author: Steven Berkoff

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

Author: Henry Bessemer

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

Author: Orlando Bloom

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.

Author: George Carey

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

Author: Elliott Carter

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

Author: Lacey Chabert

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Author: Joseph Chamberlain

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

Author: Sebastian Coe

London is a roost for every bird.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Author: Arthur Doyle

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Author: Arthur Doyle

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

Author: Harvey Fierstein

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

Author: Claire Forlani

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

Author: David Friedman

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

Author: Sadie Frost

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Author: Haile Gebrselassie

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

Author: Kathie Gifford

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

Author: Trisha Goddard

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.

Author: Norman Granz

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

Author: Guillermo Infante

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.

Author: C. James

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

Author: Don Johnson

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

Author: Ben Kingsley

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so.

Author: Mark Knopfler

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.

Author: Lillie Langtry

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Author: Kenneth Livingstone

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

Author: Jeremy London

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

Author: Henry Mayhew

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.

Author: Henry Mayhew

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Author: Ewan McGregor

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

Author: John Mica

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

Author: Bette Midler

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.

Author: Kylie Minogue

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

Author: Rhona Mitra

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

Author: Roger Moore

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

Author: Karl Moritz

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.

Author: V. Naipaul

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Author: Robert Niro

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Author: Mike Pence

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.

Author: Kathleen Quinlan

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

Author: Mick Ralphs

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

Author: Ryan Reynolds

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

Author: Mimi Rogers

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

Author: J. Rushton

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

Author: Walter Salles

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.

Author: Otto Schily

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

Author: Peter Shaffer

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

Author: Imelda Staunton

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

Author: Cliff Stearns

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Author: Henry Sweet

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Author: Virgil Thomson

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

Author: Rachel Weisz

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

Author: Patrick White

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

Author: Oscar Wilde

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

Author: Norman Wisdom

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.

Author: William Yeats