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“Dangermouse has a detatched, five bedroom pillarbox in Mayfair - surely that's rather extravagant for a secret agent.”

Extravagance Mayfair Dangermouse

Author:C.S. Woolley

“If things don't change, they will stay the same.”

Inspirational Motivational Psychology Self Help Trading Stoicism Trading Psychology Mayfair

Book:Master The Art of Trading: An Indispensable Guide to Investing

Source: Master The Art of Trading: An Indispensable Guide to Investing

“As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.”

Lestat Quinn Mayfair Blackwood Farm Mona Taltos

Book:Blood Canticle

Source: Blood Canticle

“I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.”

“As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.And it was glorious.”

Needs Heart Moments Passion Rooms Streets Quiet Drawing Glorious Afternoon Sheer Friday Epiphany Friday Afternoon Mayfair

Author:Julia Quinn

“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.”

Rooms Novel Doors Scene Series Sentences London Divided Chapters Simile Strands Metropolis Soho Mayfair

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.”

Spiritual Spirituality Yoga Fake Telephones Fifth Avenues Fifth Avenue Mayfair

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

“My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.”

Rooms Boys Fields Fit Presses Sexy Dressings Emerging Snaps Rugby Shrines Nightclubs Dressing Rooms Aces Dressers Mayfair

Author:Julian Clary

“Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.”

Mean Half Bored Honey Satisfying Blonde Highlights Salons Mayfair

Author:Rachel Johnson