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Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion

“I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.”

Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)

“The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.”

Taste Constitution Bones London Bread Destructive Ashes Insipid Chalk

Book:The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random

Source: The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random

“London; a nation, not a city.”

Nations Cities London

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.”

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Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

Should London Ruins Ashes

Book:War speeches

Source: War speeches

“I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.”

Men Strange London Strange Man

Author:Tom Baker

“I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.”

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Author:Mark Helprin

“The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.”

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Author:David Icke

“In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.”

“A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.”

“Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.”

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Author:Robert Montgomery

“There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.”

People Ifs Looks Mean Home Nice Crazy New York London Look At Me Hello Very Nice Back Home

Author:Sophie Cookson

“I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.”

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Author:Boy George

“I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.”

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Author:Boy George

“I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.”

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Author:Diane Kruger

“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.”

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Author:Martin Schulz

“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.”

“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.”

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Author:Candice Accola

“When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.”

Book Garden London Parks Good Book

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.”

Men Needs Forever England Brave Corners London Heroic Brave Man

Author:Zadie Smith

“Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.”

People Social Situation Cutting Benefits Losing London Flats Housing Caps Cleansing Imposition Disgraceful Distraught

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.”

People Ends Jobs Three Numbers Four Week Bases West London Permanent Shops Staff Replaced Colleagues Large Numbers Probation West End

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.”

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Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "”

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Author:William Dalrymple

“One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it. To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history.”

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.”

Mean Love Is Air London Breathing Queens

Author:Melissa George

“You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.”

Long Can Do Streets London

Author:Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.”

Reason America Certain Environment London Suits Ties Casual Formality Informality

Author:Tom Ford

“I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.”

Way States Running United United States Opposites London Drivers Traffic Dyslexic

Author:Tom Ford

“With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.”

Struggle South London Parks Exception Pace Wounded Traffic Routes Lanes Gnats

Author:Michael Gove

“Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.”

Wanted Film Games Cry London Vogue

Author:Eric Fellner

“I didn't have anything to do with selecting IFC. I don't have anything to do with distribution, or business, or marketing, but think it's a good choice by Graham, and perfect for London Boulevard. It gets the picture straight into a dialog with the public, and it doesn't set the sights too high. They're very hip at IFC, and they get the film. The cineplex hasn't done film any favors as an art form.”

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Author:William Monahan

“I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.”

Knows Feels Looks Film Easy Cutting Mark London Transition Boulevard

Author:William Monahan

“I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.”

Years Left And Love London Visiting

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.”

Stills Song Black Streets Battle Pops London Shirts Britain Cables Pop Song

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.”

Want Kids Bed London Theatre

Author:Sally Phillips

“London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.”

People Creative London Creative People

Author:Luke Treadaway

“Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.”

Giving Beautiful Cities London Block Mysterious Massive Magnificent Fog Grandiose Beautiful City

Author:Claude Monet

“An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.”

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Author:John Updike

“Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.”

World Home Actors Given Cities New York Directors Delight London Paris Playwright

Author:Orson Welles

“Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.”

Ifs Should Happens Views Cities Cases Gone Streets Crime Figures Cameras Good Things Very Good London Terrorist Petty Inner City Personal Views

Author:Bill Gates

“I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.”

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Author:Eva Green

“My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.”

Wells Moving Mother My Own Known Actresses London France Well Known My Own Life

Author:Eva Green

“Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.”

Weakness British East London Traditional Restaurants Dessert Custard East London

Author:Eva Green

“Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.”

Waiting Tomorrow Kissing London Aristocracy Kiss Me Duchess

Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!”

People Ifs World Voice Clear Week Messages London Protest Disapproval

Author:Bill Maher

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