“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
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Cities At Night Quotes
Source: The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform
“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author
“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”
Source: The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan
Source: 1949-1959
Source: The Information
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
Source: Notebooks, 1935-1942
“Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.”
“The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.”
“Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.”
Source: Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer
“What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.”
Source: Selected essays
“We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934
“Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.”
“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
Source: Cool memories
Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos